The Forum for Real Economic Emancipation (FREE) is hosting a public event in Tulsa exploring how economic systems fuel mass incarceration, featuring speakers, performances, and art by incarcerated ...
Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the ...
Ever since Eric Williams published his book Capitalism and Slavery, which demonstrated to those more inclined to weigh evidence rather than ideology that slavery was a crucial prop to the Industrial ...
Juneteenth is a sacred day for Black Americans, an occasion to honor the end of slavery and recognize the progress made. But as we celebrate how far we’ve come, we must confront how far we still have ...
TULSA, Okla. — A local organization focused on how economics affects society held a meeting that looked at mass incarceration. The Forum for Real Economic Emancipation, or FREE, works to understand ...
This journalistic essay examines contemporary slavery as a structural regime of the current global order rather than as a residual anomaly, a marginal ...
Fresco showing guests at a banquet and an enslaved person to the far right serving the banqueters, from the House of the Triclinium in Pompeii (40–79 CE), held by the National Archaeological Museum of ...
A new Tulsa-based group is inviting the public to discuss the role the economy plays in shaping systems of punishment. The Forum for Real Economic Emancipation, or FREE, will host its next public ...