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Criticism of prison labor dates to the years after the Civil War, when southern state prisons began to lease convicts out to private companies. Most of these convicts were African-American former slaves assigned multi-year sentences for nonviolent offenses laid out in the southern “Black Code” laws ... “They’re not allowed to unionize ... .......

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China’s Plans For World Conquest? Easy Credit

The Daily Beast 21 Mar 2019

The strain on Colombo has been so great that a 70-percent share of the island nation’s Hambantota Port was handed over to a Chinese state-owned firm on a 99-year lease ... On the African continent, China now owns 70 percent of Kenya’s foreign debt, a tenfold increase in five years....

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African Americans Bear Brunt of Subprime Crisis

Information Clearing House 19 Mar 2019

The African Americans community is used, bled dry, and then criminalized and blamed for the problem ... For more than 70 years thousands of African people were rounded up under Jim Crow laws, kept in work camps and leased out by state governments to plantations, limestone and phosphorus mines, road gangs and logging teams....

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SiSebenza partners with We Work to open first WeWork local location

Independent online (SA) 13 Mar 2019

SiSebenza has access to prime office space for the shared office environment and is working closely with WeWork to finalise possible leases across major South African cities ... The partners in SiSebenza all have long and celebrated track records of bringing business success and social good to the South African economy....

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What Happened (And What Didn’t) With Portland’s Creative Space Plan

Herald and News 11 Mar 2019

Parks has turned to a group of community stakeholders to help develop a new plan to lease out IFCC for arts events at below-market rates, with a preference for African-American arts groups ... Wonky stuff, but it’s a holy grail for many arts groups tossed from one leased space to another....

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The busy bygone years of Gerber

Red Bluff Daily News 08 Mar 2019

Inez M. Borror in the 1985 Tehama County Memories wrote “Trains all Stopped at Gerber in Busy Bygone Years .”. “Gerber, Tehama County’s youngest town, has the county’s oldest park ... There were to be no Africans, Mongolians, Hindus or Japanese permitted to own, lease or occupy land in Gerber. There was to be no tannery, slaughterhouse, or pigs ... “W. E ... E ... E ... E....

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Everett Aviation Signs with Lobo Leasing for Its First Sikorsky S-92A™ Helicopter

Market Watch 05 Mar 2019

Everett signed a contract with Lobo Leasing Limited for a utility S-92A helicopter that will support oil and gas and utility operations ... "All of us at Lobo Leasing are very pleased to be partnering with Everett Aviation and Sikorsky in introducing the S-92A into the East-African market," said Lobo CEO Bill Wolf ... About Lobo Leasing....

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Museum Around the Corner: A fine businessman

South Strand News 27 Feb 2019

William Christopher Atkinson, one of the most respected African-American businessmen of his day, began his life on Dec ... He was converted about 1886 and joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church ... since about 1865, Bill was the first successful African-American family business....

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Houston-area school district halts legal action over Black grave site

The Philadelphia Tribune 26 Feb 2019

The Fort Bend Independent School District is halting legal actions regarding the final destination for the remains of 95 individuals that were discovered a year ago, and that experts have determined were likely African-American convicts leased by the State of Texas to provide labor to a local plantation in the 19th century ... — (Houston Defender) .......

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With covenants, racism was written into Minneapolis housing. The scars are still visible.

MinnPost 22 Feb 2019

An African American couple, Madison Jackson, a Pullman porter, and his wife, Amy Jackson, bought a house in Prospect Park ... Some said the lot “shall not at any time be conveyed, mortgaged or leased to any person or persons of Chinese, Japanese, Moorish, Turkish, Negro, Mongolian or African blood or descent.” Others simply banned non-Caucasians....

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The historic Cannon Street YMCA has quietly closed, but plans to return

Charleston City Paper 20 Feb 2019

A blue and white banner now advertises a month-to-month or eight-month lease. It is another significant change to the features of what was a traditionally African-American community that has been gradually transformed by gentrification and the migration of college students, young families, and metropolitan transplants....

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China takes action as Africa struggles for solutions to forced displacement

People Daily 12 Feb 2019

Recently, China has stepped up assistance to support the growing number of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) affected by conflicts, poverty and climatic shocks in several African countries, providing a new lease of life for many on the continent....

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