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AT&T did not exist during slavery — the company began in 1877 — but it was born into Reconstruction’s collapse and built its first workforce inside a country actively re-legalizing racial exclusion. Part 1 of a 12-part series, with primary documents from the Library of Congress and AT&T’s own archive.
This week, a huge coalition showed up in Washington to demand real limits on artificial intelligence. Here’s the part that matters most: not one of the seven members of Congress who spoke belonged to the Congressional Black Caucus.
September 11: A report on reparations for Black Kansas City is ready. What does it say? | Williams.
Courtney “CW” Mallery and his wife Nicole did what generations of Black farmers before them were violently blocked from doing: they bought land in Yoder…
September 04: UN pushes nations to consider slavery reparations but legal group says idea ‘not going to fly in the US’.
August 28: H.R. 40 and the Pundit Class Ceasefire; Evanston’s Precedent Under Fire; Citizenship as Reparations: The Creek Freedmen’s Stand.
A federal judge ended nearly 60 years of court oversight over Rankin County, Mississippi schools. Here’s the legal history, what changed, and what it means for Black families going forward.
August 21: The Wealth Gap for Freedmen and Freedwomen — By the Numbers; The Fight Against Reparations Is Active Right Now.