As VP Harris Visits Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans Call for End to US Colonialism
Vice President Kamala Harris is on her way to Puerto Rico, which is marking two historic events this week: the abolition of slavery and a United States-backed massacre that left 21 Puerto Ricans dead. Decades before the U.S. invaded Puerto Rico and made it a U.S. colony, slavery was abolished on March 22, 1873. It was freedom on paper: Many enslaved Black people were forced to work an additional...