The movement’s lawyers want detailed language delineating what constitutes involuntary servitude so courts can be compelled to defend prisoners’ rights against forced labor. At the same time, ...

The history wars – the battle over how we teach our country’s past – are raging. The United States is confronting the legacies of slavery as never before. This national reconsideration has been ...

In response to ongoing challenges about market exclusion, the My Black Receipt initiative emerged as a dynamic social movement. Here’s what helped it thrive, per these researchers. Supporting ...

Agnoli writes about restoring the relation of the paths to the goal, the means-end relationship, towards an emancipatory communism. Emancipation: Paths and Goals appeared in What is to be Done?

Thomas L. Krannawitter, Ph.D., a former professor, is co-founder of The Vino & Veritas Society, which is devoted to forming a Declaration of Independence culture in America. His many books include ...

The study of Jane Austen’s novels, many of them about 200 years old, is never complete. And neither is the excavation of the beloved author’s personal life. Austen’s personal values – namely, whether ...

In his new book, The Conductor, Caleb Franz tells the story of Reverend John Rankin, a pioneering Ohio abolitionist who helped about 2,000 people flee from slavery. When Reverend John Rankin moved to ...

June 16 (UPI) --Juneteenth being declared a federal holiday in the United States and Emancipation Day being officially recognized on Aug. 1 in Canada demonstrate significant progress toward creating ...