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Exploiting black labor after the abolition of slavery

  • Written by Kathy Roberts Forde, Chair, Associate Professor, Journalism Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
imageConvicts leased to harvest timber in Florida around 1915

The U.S. criminal justice system is riven by racial disparity.

The Obama administration pursued a plan to reform it. An entire news organization, The Marshall Project, was launched in late 2014 to cover it. Organizations like Black Lives Matter and The Sentencing Project are dedicated to...

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