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Hosted by Max Parthas and Yusuf Hassan, Abolition today is a weekly online radio program with specific focus on modern slavery as it is practiced through the 13th amendment of the US constitution and by private for-profit prisons worldwide. Airs live Sundays 7PM EST. 4PM PST and 5 Central. abolitiontoday.org Abolition Today is currently on hiatus for 2024. In his capacity as national campaign coordinator for the Abolish Slavery National network, our host, Max Parthas is currently assisting 18 states and DC with their campaigns to abolish slavery in their constitutions. Please follow him on social media for updates @MaxParthas. We will return as soon as time allows. Meanwhile enjoy our incredibly rich and educational archives.

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Abolition Today

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On February 9th, 2021 over zoom, the Abolish Slavery National Network held its 1st Quarterly meeting of the year which was attended by dignitaries and representatives nationwide. It was an epic and historic moment in US history that... more
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?The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land... more
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We're 2 days away from the 2/9/21 Abolish Slavery National Network Quarterly Meeting and one month post confederate insurrection. It's all interconnected like a time rhyme but in this moment, the Abolitionist are writing the script. The last... more
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The officer who carried out this attack, Lt. Jenkins, has a long and sordid history of brutality and violence. Jenkins has been promoted several times during his tenure under Commissioner Dunn, showing a pattern of reward for brutality at... more
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Is it a lawless land? Has the constitution been so systemically violated that it's become the supreme joke of the land? Has our rights ever been respected or have they been denied generation after generation? Who violates?... more
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When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our 'colorblind' society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure - the structure of racial caste. The entrance into this new caste system... more
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Our guest will be Professor Robert Chase. author of; "We Are Not Slaves' State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America.
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?The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade... more
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Max and Yusuf have been providing educational radio podcast content for the abolitionist movement since 2010. On 1/17/2021 we are joined by our former co-host Yohanan Elijah. We're also being syndicated on the Black Talk Radio... more
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