During his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast on 7 February 2019, President Trump said the "abolition of civil rights" was among the "greatest strides" achieved throughout the history of the ...

Some Americans had opposed slavery since colonial times. In 1777, Vermont was the first U.S. territory to ban slavery, and the state of Pennsylvania followed suit in 1780. By 1804, Northern states had ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The following is an edited excerpt from the book “No More ...

With news that Google has suspended a scientist after they tried to secure legal representation for the rights of a LaMDA artificial intelligence. And it is in this light, oil painter and cartoonist ...

A still from The Line by Cameron Granger, one of several films that will be screened at the Maysles Documentary Center (courtesy Cameron Granger) "Abolition is building the future from the present, in ...

Nicole Marroquin’s protest posters are a bit more elaborate than most homemade signs one might spot at a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Rather than recycled cardboards bearing spray-painted slogans ...

Just as slavery couldn’t be reformed and had to be ended, policing can’t be reformed and has to be abolished, say leaders of modern-day abolitionist movements. And advocates for abolition literally ...

Design by Sarah Chung. Buy this photo. Abolition is also not focused on the punishment of individual police officers and law-enforcement officials, as these calls for indictments and arrests not only ...