Despite producing billions of dollars in value for the benefit of prisons and the private sector, incarcerated workers have almost no labor rights and are paid very little—if they are paid at all—for ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

Reconstruction Acts passed after the war called for Black suffrage in the Southern states ... which granted citizenship to all people born in the United States, including former slaves.