Stories Tagged as
Slavery
When ancestry tests reveal more than genetics
by
David Brancaccio
, Lee Hawkins
and Alex Schroeder
Jul 9, 2024
Special correspondent Lee Hawkins shares his experience finding new family with online genetics tests — and reconciling fraught history.
When confronting your family history means making slavery reparations
by
Lee Hawkins
Jul 4, 2024
After Lotte Lieb Dula discovered her family connection to slavery, she crafted an online guide to reparations and racial healing.
If reparations aren't politically viable, what's the next best thing?
by
Lee Hawkins
and Alex Schroeder
Jan 5, 2024
Scholars say local action directed at improving access to housing, health care and education are more likely to pass than cash payments.
California debates who should be eligible for reparations for slavery
by
Lee Hawkins
and Alex Schroeder
Jan 4, 2024
Recommendations start "with those folks who are clearly descendants of 250 years of wage theft in this country," says Sen. Steven Bradford.
2024 will be a big year for the reparations debate in California
by
Lee Hawkins
and Alex Schroeder
Jan 3, 2024
After a state task force issued a nearly 1,100-page report in 2023, lawmakers are starting to look at reparations policy options.
The tipped minimum wage has origins in slavery
by
Sabri Ben-Achour
and Erika Soderstrom
Sep 19, 2023
And that legacy means a worker can be paid as little as $2.13 an hour at the federal level.
4 states just voted to close a loophole that allowed slavery as punishment for a crime
Nov 10, 2022
But that might not change the way prisons use inmates as labor.
For public good, not for profit.
Slavery ended in the 1860s. Why hasn't the wealth gap closed for Black Americans?
by
Kimberly Adams
and Sean McHenry
Jun 20, 2022
Juneteenth commemorates Black Americans' emancipation from slavery, yet their economic emancipation continues.
Here's how companies are observing Juneteenth this year
Jun 19, 2020
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.
Author Caitlin Rosenthal on the role of slavery in the history of business
Aug 14, 2018
Caitlin Rosenthal, author of "Accounting for Slavery," discusses the role slavery plays in the history of business.