Black History Month
Black prisoners organize for dignity in Angola, Louisiana’s modern-day plantation

Louisiana State Penitentiary is nicknamed after the former plantation site that it sits on. Those incarcerated at the prison say the practice of slavery is still alive and well

Black US soldiers fought Nazis and liberated concentration camps—only to be treated like second class citizens back home

The US Army’s all-Black unit has gone down in history for heroism and are referred to by some as the “original Black Panthers”

Black labor history: How Black workers are overcoming historic obstacles to labor organizing in the South

Organizers in the US South fight back against racist right to work laws which only serve to “divide” workers