"How can we say racism doesn't exist in our state when a form of slavery lives and breathes in our constitution, the document that is supposed to embody our principles as a state," said Esteban Nunez ...

Other states, including Nevada, are deleting references to slavery in their constitutions and banning forced prison labor. California voters rejected that path when they turned down Prop. 6.

Laura F. Keyes, a professional portrayer of historic women, gave a program on Elizabeth Cady Stanton Sunday, Nov. 3, in the ...

Here was a cleric who had a view about everything, from slavery and colonialism to payday loan companies, welfare spending ...

Abolish Slavery National Network co-founder Jamilia Land, who advocated for the initiative targeting forced prison labor, said the measure and similar ones in other states are about “dismantling the ...

President-elect Trump could ax a federal program that protects undocumented immigrants who are witnesses in workplace ...

An Illinois task force is working to bring greater recognition to the state’s role in the Underground Railroad, identifying ...

The descendants of one of the largest plantations in North Carolina condemned the mass texts sent to Black Americans ...

California lawmakers agreed to put Proposition 6 on the ballot at the urging of criminal justice advocates. Since 2018, at ...

Abolishing it wouldn’t undermine state sovereignty in the least.

Black and Latino students in the Los Angeles Unified School District were among those targeted in a series of racist messages across the country. Reports began bubbling up last week; and 32 students ...