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When ancestry tests reveal more than genetics

by David Brancaccio , Lee Hawkins and Alex Schroeder
Jul 9, 2024
Special correspondent Lee Hawkins shares his experience finding new family with online genetics tests — and reconciling fraught history.
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When confronting your family history means making slavery reparations

by Lee Hawkins
Jul 4, 2024
After Lotte Lieb Dula discovered her family connection to slavery, she crafted an online guide to reparations and racial healing.
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California debates who should be eligible for reparations for slavery

by Lee Hawkins and Alex Schroeder
Jan 4, 2024
Recommendations start "with those folks who are clearly descendants of 250 years of wage theft in this country," says Sen. Steven Bradford.
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Slavery ended in the 1860s. Why hasn't the wealth gap closed for Black Americans?

by Kimberly Adams and Sean McHenry
Jun 20, 2022
Juneteenth commemorates Black Americans' emancipation from slavery, yet their economic emancipation continues.
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Race and Economy

Here's how companies are observing Juneteenth this year

by Marielle Segarra
Jun 19, 2020
Juneteenth dates back to 1865, and it is a celebration specifically of the end of slavery in Texas, which was one of the last holdouts.
This is not a new holiday. But with the conversation we’re having now about racial injustice and American history, companies are paying attention to it.
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Author Caitlin Rosenthal on the role of slavery in the history of business

by Kimberly Adams
Aug 14, 2018
Caitlin Rosenthal, author of "Accounting for Slavery," discusses the role slavery plays in the history of business.
Stereograph Cards Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
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The disturbing parallels between modern accounting and the business of slavery

by Kimberly Adams
Aug 14, 2018
How slaveholders used modern management techniques
A group of women and children, presumably slaves, sit and stand around the doorway of a rough wooden cabin in the southern United States in the mid-19th century. One girl reads a book to the group of sitting children.
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By The Numbers

Saving Wikipedia, one cup of coffee at a time

by Marketplace Staff
Dec 28, 2015
Here are the numbers we're reading and watching for Monday.
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Slavery in its modern form

by David Brancaccio
Dec 28, 2015
A look at which country today has the largest amount of forced labor.
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Of poverty and sacrifice in Haiti

by Kai Ryssdal
Aug 27, 2013
Edwidge Danticat's new novel, "Claire of the Sea Light," describes the economic difficulties of life in Haiti, even before the 2010 earthquake.
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