After a decade of research, the slavery expert has published a book documenting how thousands of ‘liberated’ Africans fell into forced labor systems and faced legal obstacles in their fight for rights
One of America’s most admired novelists, she owns a bookstore in the heart of the Minneapolis protests against Trump. In 2024, she published ‘The Mighty Red’
The island hosted the fifth international summit for students, professors, and researchers. It is an academic and cultural space dedicated to critically examining racial history
The sites where federal agents killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good join the memorial that still stands, almost six years later, in honor of George Floyd
The sidewalk where the American nurse was shot a dozen times at point-blank range has become a place of pilgrimage for residents protesting the government’s takeover of the Democratic city
EL PAÍS features the stories of three American families who arrived in the European country this year, in the face of the US’ downward spiral and the loss of freedoms: ‘Things are getting ugly’
The Ninth Circuit judges will hear arguments from both sides on Tuesday. On Thursday, a federal judge sided with California and ordered a halt to the militarization of L.A.’s streets
The two actors star in Ari Aster’s corrosive political satire ‘Eddington’, in competition at Cannes, which reveals the conspiratorial tendencies of the United States
The president signs a decree to stop a ‘revisionist movement that seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States’
The Spanish actress, nominated for an Oscar for her leading role in ‘Emilia Pérez,’ speaks to EL PAÍS about her tweets, which have caused a scandal in Hollywood, her current feelings and her future
Filmmaker Jordan Peele selects his favorite Black authors in ‘Out There Screaming,’ an anthology of stories. The book serves as the cultural industry’s spearhead against racial clichés
He started by documenting the protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, was elected at 23 as a representative for his Brooklyn district, and by 26 had successfully passed a law aimed at facilitating housing access for millions
The Democratic candidate has a clear lead among those under 34, but her support for the Israeli offensive in Gaza and her administration’s handling of issues such as migration and the environment threaten to narrow it
Students at the Pontifical Catholic University blew out the candles on a cake bearing a photo of Floyd, whose death sparked the BlackLivesMatter movement, while repeating his last words: ‘I can’t breathe’
In an interview with EL PAÍS, Jason Fulford remembers his cousin and dedicates the song ‘Taking Our Breath Back’ to him, in memory of the phrase that Eric repeated 11 times before he died: ‘I can’t breathe’
GOP Gov. Jeff Landry order removes restrictions that state law places on hiring and payroll for a period of time following a gubernatorial election. Landry was elected last year and took office in January
After years of Black expression following the murder of George Floyd, Indigenous creativity has experienced an awakening across the United States, from art exhibitions in Washington, to series such as ‘Reservation Dogs’
The measure approved by voters in 2018 was designed to make it easier to prosecute police accused of wrongfully using deadly force
A video showed Ellis with his hands up in a surrender position as one officer shot a Taser at his chest and other wrapped an arm around his neck from behind
The incident occurred in a medium-security prison in Tucson, Arizona, where he was transferred in August 2022 from a federal facility
Etterbeek, home to the main institutions of the EU, is working to contextualize its multiple monuments and symbols of Belgium’s legacy in the Congo
It is the first trial under a 5-year-old Washington state law designed to make it easier to prosecute police who wrongfully use deadly force. Opening statements are expected this week
From ‘Starsky and Hutch’ to ‘CSI,’ the relationship between law enforcement and American television has almost always been mutually beneficial. Current events call for a new approach
Former officer Tou Thao testified previously that he merely served as a ‘human traffic cone’ when holding back bystanders as former officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck as the Black man pleaded for his life in 2020
Trump got just over 4% of the presidential election vote in the district in 2016 and 5.4% in 2020
Thursday’s decision in Missouri follows a trend. School board matters have become intense political battlegrounds
Since she began her career in the 1980s, she has illustrated the trials of Mark David Chapman, R. Kelly, Donald Trump and others