This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. The following is an edited excerpt from the book “No More ...

Some Americans had opposed slavery since colonial times. In 1777, Vermont was the first U.S. territory to ban slavery, and the state of Pennsylvania followed suit in 1780. By 1804, Northern states had ...

“Defund the police” has become a rallying cry for recent protests, but several different explanations have been offered for what it actually means. The semantic dispute reveals key philosophical ...

Design by Sarah Chung. Buy this photo. Abolition is also not focused on the punishment of individual police officers and law-enforcement officials, as these calls for indictments and arrests not only ...

Gina Dent is an associate professor of feminist studies, history of consciousness, and legal studies, editor of , and has been a prison abolition activist for more than 25 years. (Photo credit: Amira ...

If 2020 was the first time you heard about abolition, it’s safe to assume that was, in part, because of the celebrated academic and abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Maybe it was on the Intercept’s ...

BEDFORD, NEW BEDFORD IS A CITY RICH IN HISTORY. PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THAT NEW BEDFORD AND MASSACHUSETTS WERE SAFE PLACES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. PEOPLE DIDN’T CARE WHAT COLOR YOU WERE. YOU COULD GET A JOB ...

Every product on this page was chosen by a Harper's BAZAAR editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. On January 8, 2020, 700 men stood with their fists in the air at ...

On July 3, U.N. delegates and NGO representatives from around the world gathered at the U.N. Headquarters in New York for an invigorating conference entitled “Moving Away From the Death Penalty - ...