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Fight Club star Edward Norton recently discovered the “uncomfortable” fact that he is a descendant of a slave owner, and one particular detail of his family history makes him “want to die.”

Four Republican lawmakers sent a letter this week to the heads of Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security expressing concern that the Inflation Reduction Act may encourage companies to import solar panels to America made in China by Uyghur slaves.

Producer Joey McFarland has apologizedfor bringing the historic “Whipped Peter” photograph to the premiere of “Emancipation.”

(AFP) Directing “Emancipation,” a brutal and harrowing film about slavery set deep in the alligator-infested Louisiana swamps, was always going to be a challenge for Antoine Fuqua — and then his star Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars.

Apple TV+ shared a trailer for the historical drama “Emancipation” featuring Will Smith.

Democrat nominee for governor in Arizona, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, finds herself amid another race controversy as she was a “student leader” during her high school days when “pupils took part in a yearly tradition known as ‘Slave Day,'” according to a report Monday.

A recent AP story praised NBA coach Doc Rivers for using training camps and practices to indoctrinate players in left-wing social justice.

A London park named for four-time prime minister William Gladstone, one of the most famous premiers of the Victoria era, will be transformed into a “slavery garden” at the behest of the Labour-run local government.

Call it a woke civil war: activists called for a boycott of “The Woman King” over the film’s blatant whitewashing of an African tribe’s participation in the transatlantic slave trade.

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which operates under the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), urged America on Tuesday to “develop reparation proposals” for descendants of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, claiming its “lingering legacy” still represses black Americans today.

An American NGO has demanded that British universities are refused permission to return artefacts taken from African states that “profited from slavery”.

The United Nations’ top official on slavery declared in a world report made public on Tuesday that the Chinese Communist Party was actively enslaving members of non-Han ethnic groups in East Turkistan, an occupied region west of China, and has likely engaged in similar activities in Tibet.

The United Kingdom has seen the highest spike in the number of people allegedly victimised by modern slavery since statistics began, official data has revealed.

The Mexican newspaper El Financiero claimed on Wednesday to be privy to leaked documents showing leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agreeing to pay communist Cuba more than $1 million a month for medical slave labor.

Activists need to turn their attention away from attacking old statues and start fighting modern slavery, an ex-police officer has said.

Woke curators at the Royal Collection Trust (RCT) are reviewing over 2,500 artworks and photographs to ensure they conform to politically correct language codes and emphasise any supposed links to slavery and imperialism.

The government of China announced it would make a large purchase of cotton from occupied East Turkistan for its reserves, an apparent desperate measure in light of the implementation of an American law banning slave-made products from the region.

This month’s implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act – a law that requires companies to prove imports from the occupied Chinese region of East Turkistan were not produced by slaves – has triggered an outcry among companies insisting due diligence of supply chains to abide by the law is needlessly onerous, if not impossible.

The Dutch central bank apologized for the institution’s involvement in the 19th-century slave trade, the latest such expression of contrition.

China’s Global Times government-run newspaper published an outraged editorial on Tuesday condemning America as a “menace” for implementing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which requires companies to prove any product imported from occupied East Turkistan is not made by slaves.

Bill Nye, the “Science Guy,” falsly claimed in a recent tweet that the last slaves weren’t officially freed until June 19, 1865, or on “Juneteenth.”

Ahead of the Juneteenth anniversary of the emancipation of U.S. slaves, former state Rep. Vernon Jones, a conservative Democrat-turned-Republican running for Congress in Georgia, called out Democrats for for their historical support of slavery, while recognizing the role of Republicans who sacrificed their lives to end the institution.

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) described the upcoming 2022 World Cup, scheduled to take place in repressive Qatar, as “a celebration of unity and diversity” this week after years of accusations of human rights atrocities in the country including forced labor used to build soccer facilities.

Cuban doctors in exile and human rights organizations revealed this week that socialist Venezuela arrested at least 17 Cuban slave doctors for trying to escape their medical delegation.

A German woman who allegedly took advantage of an enslaved Yazidi woman was convicted Wednesday of membership in a terrorist organization.

Communist China’s genocide of the Uyghur people is a “threat” to American sovereignty through “transnational repression” of Uyghurs and the sale of slave-made products to Americans, Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Nury Turkel told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday.

An internal investigation into the history of slavery associated with Harvard University reported Tuesday that several people associated with the institution owned a total of 70 slaves, and that Harvard benefited from money donated by slave owners.

The UK is set to ban the NHS from purchasing supplies and medical equipment from the concentration camp Chinese region of Xinjiang.

Colin Kaepernick said that the NFL has caught up to his personal ideas and now that they are “aligned,” he should be welcomed back.

In a move of extreme hypocrisy, former NFL quarterback and anthem-kneeler Colin Kaepernick, who has not played in the NFL since 2016, the same year he began kneeling, seems to be imploring the NFL to let him back into the league less than six months after likening the NFL combine to a mid-1800’s slave auction.

The government of Russia complained in anticipation of a vote to expel it on Thursday that its potential exit from the United Nations Human Rights Council would “discredit” the body and erode public “trust” in it, despite some of the world’s worst human rights violators remaining on the Council even with Russia’s ouster.

Whoopi Goldberg, has called for the royal family to apologise for the British Empire and its role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Protesters in Jamaica called for the United Kingdom to pay reparations as Prince William and Kate arrived visit the island.

1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones on Tuesday deleted a tweet in which she argued tipping servers in restaurants has its roots in slavery.

The National Museum Wales has declared that the use of steam trains is “rooted in colonialism and racism”.

British comedy icon John Cleese had his mic taken by woke co-panellists at an event in Austin, Texas, after pointing out that British imperialism was not unique and that the British, too, were once slaves.