Slavery was abolished in New York in 1827. Prior to that, the Dyckmans, Nagles, and other Uptown Manhattan families, made use of enslaved labor. The post Uptown’s Forgotten Slave Cemetery appeared first on | My Inwood.| | My Inwood
Idaho has one of the most comprehensive abortion laws in the United States, effectively banning the procedure at all stages of pregnancy with narrow exceptions. The state's framework consists of multiple overlapping statutes, primarily enacted or triggered after the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. […]| Idaho Freedom
by William Trollinger Below is an excerpt of an essay of mine that was published in the Summer, 2025 issue of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, an issue which is devoted to white C…| Righting America
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“Securing the first permanent, universal, and immediate abolition of slavery was Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s greatest success and is his legacy.”| Public Books
There is little recourse when a visa application is denied because of a criminal background. In order to overhaul the U.S. immigration system, it is vital for the country to nix the idea of criminality altogether.| YES! Magazine
After a failed War on Drugs, Échele Cabeza is working to protect drug consumers rather than penalize them.| YES! Magazine
The Appalachian Rekindling Project purchased land in Kentucky that was designated for a federal prison.| YES! Magazine
Rapid response offers a model of defense grounded in a refusal to let immigrants face harm alone.| YES! Magazine
When people's needs are met, there is less violence—and less need for policing and prisons.| YES! Magazine
This piece appears in print in Salvage 14: Shrouded in Darkness. Issue 14 is available to buy individually here. Our poetry, fiction and art remains exclusive to the print edition, and our subscribers have exclusive access to some online content, including all audio content. New subscriptions can be taken out here, and start with the […]| Salvage
Lest We Forget! The slogan, invoked by unreconstructed rebel defenders of “the lost cause,” referring to the defeat of the Confederacy by the Union 160 years ago, has suddenly taken…| Eugene L. Meyer
Couldn't make it to our celebration of our 2024-25 Artist in Residence? Read Cherise Morris' essays written during her time with DJC, and watch the video of her final reading.| Detroit Justice Center
The Sunday Bulletin's editorial on Math 6, 1966 was carefully crafted. Headlined "The Winds of Doctrine," it introduced a ten-part series "The Left and The Right -- A View from Within." New to the Philadelphia paper, my first assignment was to "join" the antiwar movement as an "undercover" reporter, while…| Eugene L. Meyer
The Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative (3PI) will host its second symposium on May 30, 2025. This virtual symposium will feature research at the intersection of policing and philosophy, wi…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Alexandria, VA, January 9, 2025—The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to announce the publication of Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration, edited by Alison Clemens and Jessica Farrell. This report is the latest addition to CLIR’s Pocket Burgundy series, which features concise publications on critical topics relevant Read More The post CLIR Releases New Report in Pocket Burgundy Series—Archivist Actions,...| CLIR
Today, the President of Zimbabwe has signed the Death Penalty Abolition Act (2024), removing the death penalty in law, following approval by the Senate of the Bill introducing abolition.| The Death Penalty Project
→ APPLY HERE Now Recruiting Court Outreach Team Members! LA DEFENSA MISSION La Defensa is leading the movement to decarcerate the largest jail population in the United States–the LA County jail system. We’re working to reduce the power and scope of the judiciary, law enforcement, and the legal injustice system. We’re also fighting for a […] The post RMJ Court Outreach Team Member appeared first on La Defensa.| La Defensa
In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the law. Books by Jessica Millward and Martha Jones have shown how enslaved women used local courts to flesh out legal standing for Black kinship ties and Black citizenship prior to emancipation. Emily A. Owens’ study| AAIHS - African American Intellectual History Society
If anyone was ever in any doubt about the iniquities of the Apprenticeship scheme that followed the apparent abolition of slavery in the British colonies this little book lays out in graphic detail just how much more dreadful things became for those who had been enslaved. I say ‘apparent abolition’ because although no-one was now … Continue reading The Iniquities of Apprenticeship» The post The Iniquities of Apprenticeship appeared first on A Parcel of Ribbons.| A Parcel of Ribbons
The Appeal spoke with Robert Saleem Holbrook about the long-standing solidarity among liberation movements for Black Americans and Palestine.| theappeal.org
In this excerpt formerly incarcerated writer James Kilgore denounces the growing use of e-carceration technologies like ankle monitors.| theappeal.org
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