Slavery

Jamaica’s campaign for Britain to pay billions in reparations for the human abominations of the transatlantic slave trade will go directly to King Charles III on Monday as a petition is due to be handed over detailing the desired settlement.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published a report on Tuesday that found transnational gangs looted at least $88 billion from Southeast Asia in 2025, using a wide variety of telephone and cyber scams, often employing slave labor at notorious “scam centers” that resemble prison camps.

President Donald Trump’s administration is allowed to reinstall interpretive panels at a historic site in Philadelphia that have been the subject of criticism, an appeals court ruled on Friday.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the New York Times’ now-debunked “1619 Project,” said that paying reparations for slavery would amount to admitting that “the entire existence of the United States” is a crime.

WNBA star Brianna Turner criticized the league after a report surfaced that players would wear patches in honor of the United States’s 250th anniversary for the All-Star game, stating that “no WNBA players would have been free 250 years ago.”

Friday on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” network host Al Sharpton claimed the White House UFC event was meant to bring the country back to a time when there were fights for the slave masters.

The Chinese state newspaper Global Times published an article on Tuesday celebrating that Chinese manufacturers were dominating the market for FIFA World Cup branded products, from soccer balls to team jerseys.

Australian Federal Police officers on Thursday arrested three women with deep ties to the Islamic State right after disembarking from a plane as they tried to return to the country — ending the police’s roughly decade-long wait for the opportunity

Two rounds of materials testing revealed the presence of cotton from East Turkistan, the occupied Uyghur homeland, in Labubu dolls.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has vowed to block visas to Britain from any country which demands slavery reparations from the United Kingdom.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) compared President Ronald Reagan’s characterization of the Soviet Union to the reality of modern-day China, telling Breitbart News that the country is an “evil empire” and calling President Xi Jinping a “Marxist.”

Speaking at an event on slavery reparations at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama accused President Donald Trump of “slowly normalizing the erasure” of black history in America and inspiring other governments to do the same around the world.

Taliban “supreme leader” Hibatullah Akhundzada recently approved a novel criminal code, multiple outlets reported this week, that dramatically expands the legal ability for men to physically abuse women and children and provides for the creation of a formal “slave” class in the country.

The National Park Service has taken down a slavery exhibit on a site in Philadelphia that marks the home where President George Washington lived when the city served as one of the first capitals of the United States.

Cuban slave doctors presently in Luanda, Angola denounced that they spent Christmas without receiving pay for their services from the Cuban communist regime, the independent outlet 14 y Medio reported on Thursday.

Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson said on Saturday that there are no “illegal aliens” in his city and it is racist to say there are.

The Confederacy planned arguably the first October Surprise–a bold attack at Cedar Creek to defeat a Union army—a desperate bid to aid the Copperhead Peace Democrats at the ballot box.

Saudi Arabia has officially ended its “kafala” system of rules for migrant labor, a system that effectively turned some 13 million migrants into indentured servants and gave their employers total control over their lives.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Friday that creates an office of reparations for slavery in California, despite the fact that the Golden State entered the Union as a free state in 1850.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has approved legislation establishing a new state agency tasked with administering programs for descendants of slaves, marking the latest step in his years-long effort to advance reparations policies despite ongoing political and fiscal challenges.

The U.S. State Department will announce on Wednesday that it had imposed visa restrictions on unnamed government officials from Grenada and several African states, in addition to members of the Cuban Communist Party, in relation to Havana’s longstanding Cuban health worker slavery scheme.

German carmaker Volkswagen trapped and effectively enslaved hundreds of Brazilian workers at a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon between 1977 and 1987, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing the work of an intrepid Catholic priest to document the atrocity.

The Qatar Olympic Committee confirmed on Wednesday that it is pursuing a bid to host the 2036 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, citing its recently completed sports stadiums and other facilities built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

The Trump administration directed the National Park Service (NPS) to remove signs that were critical of American history.

Brazil’s Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPT) filed a public civil lawsuit against Chinese electric carmaker BYD on allegations the company subjected 220 Chinese nationals to conditions analogous to slavery and international human trafficking at its unfinished plant in Brazil.

An outpouring of contrasting emotions hit social media this week after a fire incinerated the largest pre-Civil War plantation mansion remaining in the American South.

In a major u-turn, the left-wing Labour Party government in Britain has reversed course and will prohibit the state-owned green energy project from using solar panels tied to Chinese slave labour.

President Donald Trump’s policies increasing duties and tariffs on products imported from China announced on Wednesday could pose an existential threat to low-quality, cheap goods Chinese shopping sites such as Shein and Temu, experts warned.

A panel of experts testified to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that Chinese companies mining for “green” energy minerals throughout Africa – particularly in resource-rich countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), are creating a “catastrophic and unacceptable” situation for locals.

Britain’s radical green agenda has been accused of being “stained with blood” as leftist Labour MPs voted down a bill to ban the government from buying solar panels made by slaves.

Forever 21, a mall-staple clothing store mostly targeting young women, blamed the rise of Chinese slave-linked shopping applications such as Shein and Temu for a prodigious drop in its profits in a bankruptcy filing on Sunday.

A jury in a U.K. court on Thursday convicted a United Nations judge of forcing a young woman to work as a slave after tricking her into coming to the country.

The Indian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that 283 Indian nationals rescued from enslavement by cybercrime rings in Southeast Asia have been brought home from Thailand by the Indian Air Force (IAF).

Chinese companies linked to Shein and Temu are “contending with the chaos” after President Donald Trump ended the de minimis loophole.

A recently released United Nations agency report compiles evidence that China has dramatically expanded its state-sponsored slavery program.

The government of Brazil stopped issuing work visas for Chinese electric carmaker BYD after local authorities rescued 163 Chinese nationals working in conditions “analogous to slavery” at a BYD factory under construction in the city of Camaçari, Bahia, Reuters reported.