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Experts, including one of the world’s top researchers on the Uyghur genocide and a senior official in the Department of Labor, told Congress this week that legitimate audits to inspect for slave conditions and other forced labor in China, especially in the occupied Uyghur region, are “impossible.”

Freshman Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) suggested that black Americans should be exempt from paying taxes as a form of reparations.

Two Iraqis accused of being members of the Islamic State group and keeping two young Yazidi girls as slaves.

Tennessee is divided over reparations, with a black Memphis pastor leading the charge against a bill that would prohibit the funding of a proposed reparations study in the state.

Boston, Massachusetts, Christian leaders are calling on “white churches” to dole out millions of dollars in reparations to black people to rectify their history with slavery.

German court rejected ISIS woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old girl she kept as a slave to die of thirst.

A group of North Koreans sent to work in a Chinese seafood factory last month rioted and occupied the building to protest unpaid wages. During the protest, they took a factory official hostage and beat a representative of the owning company to death.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter on Thursday to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Gary Gensler in response to news reports that Shein, a Chinese online retailer that sells women’s clothing at steep discounts, is seeking an initial public offering (IPO) on the U.S. stock market, warning the company is “subject to the whim” of Beijing and thus a threat to investors.

Chinese e-commerce company Temu launched a campaign targeting American consumers reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars this weekend, spearheaded by massive spending on Super Bowl advertising.

The Chinese discount shopping application Temu aired three commercials during Sunday’s Super Bowl, encouraging Americans to “shop like a billionaire” at its website and disregard significant evidence that Temu profits from the Chinese Communist Party’s enslavement of tens of thousands of Uyghurs and other members of Turkic ethnic groups in East Turkistan.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley responded in the affirmative to radio host and author Charlamagne tha God when he asked if she felt “stupid” after she failed to identify slavery as a cause of the Civil War in December.

During Saturday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Life, Liberty & Levin,” host Mark Levin decried what he deemed to be “slavery” that was underway at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman has proposed a $14 trillion reparations plan “for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States.”

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Obokata Tomoya, asked the communist regime of Cuba to respond to evidence that it was selling its citizens to nations such as Spain, Italy, Ghana, and Qatar for labor exploitation in a letter published Tuesday by the human rights organization Prisoners Defenders.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is drawing criticism from her primary opponents and other prominent conservatives after she was asked what caused the Civil War in the United States and failed to mention slavery in her word salad response at an event in New Hampshire Wednesday night.

Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday blamed a “Democrat plant” for a question about what caused the Civil War. The presidential candidate neglected to include “slavery” in her list of reasons.

Nikki Haley has come under fire for issuing a word-salad response when asked why America fought in the Civil War. 

Former slave-trading countries should pay Barbados $4.9 trillion in reparations, the Caribbean country’s leftist prime minister has demanded.

Rural communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing an “environmental catastrophe” as mining for cobalt and other minerals necessary for manufacturing batteries poisons their land and water with toxic chemicals, experts told Congress on Tuesday.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson delivered a bizarre rant shoehorning slavery and racism into the discussion of critics of his shelter policies.

Immigration continues the cheap labor exploitation encouraged by slavery, according to an article published by the New York Times.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a ban on Tuesday on imports from three Chinese companies selling industrial chemicals, wool, and yarn on the grounds that they profited from Beijing’s state-sponsored slave trade of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Turkic ethnic groups.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticized the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday for hypocrisy on the issue of mass migration, charging open-borders advocates with spreading “chaos,” making human traffickers rich, and bringing the evil of slavery back into the world.

John Mellencamp says that blacks in America are no better off today than they were 200 years ago, even when they are famous sports stars.

While speaking with Fox News Digital on Tuesday, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) continued his critique of language on slavery in Florida’s social studies standards and called for the controversial sentence to be removed because anyone “talking

Rep. John James (R-MI) slammed Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for attacking black Republicans who expressed concern with Florida’s education standards that purport to teach students about the “personal benefit” enslaved Americans received under slavery.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” guest host Ali Velshi and National Education Association (NEA) President Becky Pringle criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for a provision in the state’s social studies standards about “how slaves developed skills

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to a critique from Republican primary rival Sen. Tim Scott (SC) on Friday over Florida’s newly approved curriculum for black history, explaining that his administration will continue to debunk the lies perpetrated by the left.

The Advanced Placement (AP) curriculum championed by many left-wing advocates includes language similar to that which Democrats have seized upon to claim that Florida’s own history curriculum is “pro-slavery.”

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign said it is a “disgrace” that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) office criticized Rep. Byron Donalds’ (R-FL) conservative record after he expressed minor concern with Florida’s education standards that purport to teach students about the “personal benefit” enslaved Americans received under slavery.

On Tuesday’s “Megyn Kelly Show,” Dr. William Allen — one of the authors of Florida’s social studies standards — defended the provision that instruction will include “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit” and argued

Dr. William Allen, a black scholar who was among the 13 experts who crafted Florida’s history standards for public schools, is firing back at claims by Vice President Kamala Harris that the curriculum is pro-slavery.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Dr. William Allen — one of the authors of Florida’s social studies standards — fired back at criticism of one provision that instruction will include “how slaves developed skills which,

Controversy over new standards approved by Florida education officials for black history is engulfing the DeSantis campaign after Gov. Ron DeSantis attempted to clarify details of the new curriculum approved, including the inclusion that slaves gained skills “which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

A group of graphic designers filed a lawsuit against the Chinese online “fast fashion” company Shein for stealing their designs, Time magazine reported on Sunday, accusing the retail giant of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO), a federal law classically used to target organized crime syndicates.

China state newspaper Global Times on Sunday called its pro-regime observers “widely pessimistic” and expecting “no concrete progress” as President Joe Biden’s special climate envoy, John Kerry, landed in Beijing for talks to address the alleged climate “crisis.”