slavery

In his best-seller debut novel, Robert Jones, Jr., describes the romantic and tragic relationship between two enslaved young men on a Mississippi cotton…

Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. They did me. She reads four poems from her new memoir, Funeral Diva, on this week’s Out in the…

On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’re rebroadcasting our conversation about two recent AP investigations exposing widespread labor and…

Should any person or institution who has benefited from our sorry history of racism be required to compensate the victims of racism?The United States…

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll talk about the story of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. In his Pulitzer-winning biography of the former slave turned…

On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, Mother Jones’ award winning investigative reporter Shane Bauer joins us to discuss his new book American…

Alex Tizon recently wrote about his family’s slave, Lola. Some praise Alex Tizon for his courage in confronting a dark chapter in his family’s history.…

On this week's West Coast Live, Sedge Thomson talks about freedom and how the stories of slaves, serfs and peons through history can illuminate those…

After more than 150 years, historians (and perhaps Californians) are facing the horrifying truth that Indian slavery was a key source of labor that helped…

On the October 6th edition of Your Call, we’ll discuss new museums and exhibits that tell the story of African-American history. From the Black Panthers…