Special correspondent Lee Hawkins shares his experience finding new family with online genetics tests — and reconciling fraught history.
After Lotte Lieb Dula discovered her family connection to slavery, she crafted an online guide to reparations and racial healing.
Scholars say local action directed at improving access to housing, health care and education are more likely to pass than cash payments.
Recommendations start “with those folks who are clearly descendants of 250 years of wage theft in this country,” says Sen. Steven Bradford.
After a state task force issued a nearly 1,100-page report in 2023, lawmakers are starting to look at reparations policy options.
And that legacy means a worker can be paid as little as $2.13 an hour at the federal level.
But that might not change the way prisons use inmates as labor.
Juneteenth commemorates Black Americans’ emancipation from slavery, yet their economic emancipation continues.
Juneteenth dates back to 1865, and it is a celebration specifically of the end of slavery in Texas, which was one of the last holdouts.
Caitlin Rosenthal, author of "Accounting for Slavery," discusses the role slavery plays in the history of business.
