
Investigation Finds U.S. Stores Selling Shrimp Prepared by Slave Labor in Thailand
Several of America’s largest retailers are selling shrimp prepared in Thailand by slave labor, including children, says a media investigation.

Several of America’s largest retailers are selling shrimp prepared in Thailand by slave labor, including children, says a media investigation.

The Guardian has summarised Britain’s history as a litany of “Pirates, explorers, empire-makers, slavers,” and branded the British character as “insular”. Yet despite all this England-bashing, the author is surprised at the lack of pride among newcomers for their adoptive

President Obama’s speech in Congress today was supposed to recognize the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment banning slavery.

Kurdish forces are reporting they have uncovered two mass graves while on patrol in Sinjar, Iraq, on Sunday, after liberating that city from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) control.

CNN host Mike Rowe – the longtime host of a show dedicated to hard and messy work called Dirty Jobs, and a tireless advocate of blue-collar jobs – had an interesting response to the latest burst of politically-correct idiocy from MSNBC.

A statue of founding father and writer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson is sparking debate at the University of Missouri, with some students demanding that the statue be removed over Jefferson’s “offensive” history as a slave owner.

Academy Award-winning actress and noted feminist Meryl Streep is under fire for a controversial T-shirt she wore during a recent photo shoot to promote her new film about women’s suffrage.

A group of 40 Romanians, including women and children, have been found crammed into a three bedroomed house in Dudley. Another 10 were found in a nearby property. Three people are being questioned on suspicion of running the suspected slave house.

A person working on The View revealed Tuesday co-host and moderator Whoopi Goldberg spent a portion of last week referring to herself as ABC’s “slave” and “n—ger,” to protest unjust treatment at the hands of network brass.

Frustrated with being asked to go above and beyond her contractual obligations by showing up 30 minutes early for work, View co-host Whoopi Goldberg reportedly spent last week speaking in a slave dialect to protest her bosses at ABC.

While a recent report found only 1.3 percent of around 70,000 Burning Man festival-goers identify as black, its founder Larry Harvey has drawn his own conclusions centered on “historical issues” to explain the lack of diversity.

An online game called Slave Tetris in which players try to stack as many African slaves as possible on top of one another has been pulled following an angry reaction online. The game was part of project called Playing History:

Four members of the same family have appeared in court accused of keeping a woman as a domestic slave in their Stockton home. An interpreter was needed to translate proceedings into Punjabi. Sakina Bibi, 67, Rabia Mobin, 27, Tariq Mahmood Siddique,

Actress Julianne Moore has launched an online petition to pressure the Virginia high school she attended into removing J.E.B. Stuart from its name.

Connecticut Democrats are dumping Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson from their annual fundraising dinner in response to the ongoing Confederate flag controversy. State Democratic party leaders voted unanimously to scrub the two famous Americans’ names due to the fact that they owned slaves.

California Governor Jerry Brown will take his utopian foreign policy to the Vatican to participate this week in an environmental summit hosted by Pope Francis. Despite California’s majority Democrats’ intention to banish celebrations of Catholic missionary Father Junipero Serra’s accomplishments, Brown will carry a state resolution supporting Pope Francis’ recent draft “Encyclical on Climate Change.”

In May, a U.S. special operations mission in Syria killed one of the top money men for ISIS, Abu Sayyaf, and captured his wife Umm Sayyaf. It would have been great to take Abu Sayyaf alive, but it was known at the time that his wife was also a high-value target, and subsequent interrogations have proven her to be a major asset. In fact, Nancy Youssef at the Daily Beast judges Umm Sayyaf to be “the richest human intelligence source to fall into U.S. hands to date.”

On June 17, reports emerged that Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Roof obtained his gun “legally,” so calls for gun control have largely fallen on deaf ears. But a photo of Roof posing with a Confederate battle flag has managed to become the impetus for a cause célèbre to banish the Confederate battle flag from public view.

On June 26, the Huffington Post ran a column focused on how Australian comedian Jim Jefferies “shoots down [the] 2nd Amendment with humor.”

In the tragic shooting deaths of nine African Americans, once again some in the press along with political leadership and even business leadership are attempting to turn a tragedy into a shameful opportunity to destroy an important part of American history.

On June 18, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced that Alexander Hamilton would be replaced or diminished on the $10 bill by 2020. In the place of America’s first treasury secretary would be an as yet unannounced woman.

The producers of genealogy series Finding Your Roots violated PBS editorial standards when they omitted information about Ben Affleck’s slave-owning ancestors from the actor’s recent segment on the program, the public TV station said Wednesday.

On Wednesday, former Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) asked people across the country to stop the feeding frenzy that is leading one politician after another to call for the removal of a Confederate flag from their respective state capitols.

Over 2,000 people were illegally trafficked into the United Kingdom as slaves last year and Britain’s anti-slavery commissioner has called for action to be taken on the large number of people coming from Africa. With a job title that would

Horror stories of sexual brutality against teenage girls continue to emerge from Iraq and Syria as UN officials hear firsthand accounts of what has been transpiring under the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) reign of terror.