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Legal experts call the action significant, timely and ambitious.

Edward Baptist argues in his new book that slavery was integral to establishing the America as a world economic power.

Is prison abolition possible? Desirable? Or does it miss the real problem with our criminal justice system?

Like many who fall afoul of the law, Tarra Simmons was born and raised in a taxing household environment from which few would succeed. She dropped out of school at 13 and gave birth at 15. In 2011, she was sentenced to 30 months in prison for several charges. It was in prison that, under […]

An ardent abolitionist, he is best known for his roles as Speaker of the House under Lincoln and vice president under Grant.

An oil and natural gas boom is underway in the United States, born of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” It has created tens of thousands of well-paying jobs directly, and hundreds of thousands more in hundreds of businesses that supply and support the industry and its workers.

Today is the 75th day of 2023. There are 290 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT 1968: During the Vietnam War, US soldiers dispatched on a search-and-destroy mission kill as many as 500...

The idea of secession did not originate with Marjorie Taylor Greene. It has been tried before. The question we need to ask is whether we are really ready to see what a Red and Blue America would look and act like.

Siphiwe Baleka speaks with TAG24 NEWS about his ground-breaking reparations petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Booker's bills would end cruel labor practices in U.S. prisons, plus tackle fair pay and workplace discrimination on behalf of inmates.