Tag: robbed

Lisbon: a city robbed of its soul

The icing on the cake of the tragedy of economic crisis (after the hardship, broken families, incapacity to provide) is the depriving of an often overlooked factor of life : meaning and identity. If there ever was a city suffering of a deprived identity on the aftermath of economic crisis,...

How Sharecropping Robbed Black Americans of Generational Wealth

Giving a group of people freedom without opportunity is cruel, like donating frozen turkeys to the homeless, knowing they do not have access to a pan or stove to bake it in. And yet, this is precisely how Black Americans were treated after the Civil War. While the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, t...