Ghana, considered a gateway of the brutal slave trade to the United States that began more than 400 years ago, is urging “unwanted” Americans of African heritage to resettle within its borders in the wake of the police killing of Minnesota resident George Floyd.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) referred to America’s “original sin” in the context of a discussion about police reform, following nationwide protests after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Former Clemson players DeAndre Hopkins and Deshaun Watson are leading the charge to have former South Carolina Senator and slavery proponent John C. Calhoun’s name and legacy removed from the school.
A takeaway boss jailed for enslaving white men has been ordered to pay back the £275,000 he made from his crimes.
Kent police arrested five people in connection with the alleged trafficking and exploitation of Romanian fruit pickers.
Historians were outraged by Hannah-Jones’s false claim, which the Times was forced to correct. She won the Pulitzer anyway.
Lebanese security forces arrested a man on Thursday on suspicion of putting a Nigerian domestic worker up “for sale” online, Al Jazeera reported.
Videos of seemingly hundreds of Muslim Uyghurs leaving western Xinjiang province to work in factories elsewhere indicate that China is plugging the holes in its economy caused by the Wuhan coronavirus with “slave laborers and cannon fodder,” the human rights publication Bitter Winter asserted on Wednesday.
Hollywood director Spike Lee took to Instagram to attack a group of black Donald Trump supporters, essentially comparing them to house slaves.
An activist student group at Towson University has started a petition to rename two buildings on campus that are named after prominent Maryland politcians and farmers from the 17th and 18th centuries. The students argue that the buildings should be renamed because their namesakes owned slaves.
Deciding to have children in the First World supports slavery, according to a BBC Three segment pushed on social media.
George Washington’s Mount Vernon has discontinued a magnet depicting the first president’s false teeth in light of a controversy about their origin.
Appearing Tuesday on the Fox Business Network, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) dismissed record-low black unemployment under President Donald Trump, stating black Americans “were fully employed during slavery.”
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes took the stage on Tuesday at the Department of Transportation where he recalled meeting with President Donald Trump not long after the 2016 election about the scourge of human trafficking.
Speaking Monday to CBS This Morning, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson cast doubt over the feasibility of reparations for the descendants of slaves, calling the logistics “unworkable.”
The University of Cincinnati announced this week that they will be removing Charles McMicken’s name from the college of arts and sciences. McMicken, one of the original founders of the University of Cincinnati, owned slaves during his lifetime in the first half of the 1800s.
Amidst fresh accusations of antisemitism, the far-left leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said that if elected he would force schools in the United Kingdom to teach the “historical injustices” committed by the British Empire.
If her story was fiction, no one would believe it. Harriet tells her story truthfully and tells it well.
The University of Bristol has hired its first Professor of the History of Slavery, in order to research its ties to the slave trade and whether the university should apologise for its past.
The issue of reparations is now front and center in Louisiana’s upcoming gubernatorial election in which the state’s incumbent Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards is seeking a second term in office.
Harvard University President Larry Bacow apologized recently after he faced a backlash for comparing a proposed university donor policy to slavery.
Another high level employee of the New York Times made racist, anti-semitic, and disparaging comments on social media.
Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities Dawn Butler has said British businesses “must” pay reparations, and linked U.S. President Donald Trump to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke — apparently forgetting that he endorsed her own party leader.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested Thursday that the ongoing debate over D.C.’s statehood is intricately rooted in the “history of slavery.”
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden gave a “bad answer” about the effect slavery has had on race relations, according to Indiana mayor, Pete Buttigieg.
Labour’s David Lammy MP has shared song lyrics describing the “shame” of being a white male, and the “evil” of their “ancestry”.
Thanks to the Democrats’ cartoonish clown car of presidential candidates, the party of slavery is now the party of reparations for slavery.
No one has to lie to prove Biden’s racist, and his idea of reparations is yet another example of this.
A group representing descendants of slaves had a message for the 2020 Democrat candidates who have not endorsed immediate reparations: “We see you.”
A 28-year-old Yazidi former sex slave named Shatha Salim Bashar is scheduled to testify in German court next month against one of the fourteen Islamic State jihadis who allegedly enslaved and raped her, used her as a human shield, and forced her to watch her best friend die.
In Northen Virginia, history is being removed from the streets as officials decide to change Jefferson Davis Highway to Richmond Highway.
The “abuses of ICE” resemble “the auction block during slavery,” said Ayanna Pressley in an interview with Pod Save America.
Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte (PSL) is already back in stores, and in honor of the drink’s annual arrival last Tuesday, the Washington Post published a bizarre piece alerting readers of “the violent history behind your favorite Starbucks latte,” which reportedly includes “war, genocide and slavery.”
Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan has come out in support of a British slavery museum in the capital, an idea promoted by the socialist-progressive Fabian Society.
While most Americans are spending time this summer enjoying the sun in the comfort of their houses’ yards, the New York Times is out with a new exposé on how lawn care is problematic, once viewed through the lens of social justice.
Africa currently has the highest prevalency of modern-day slavery, four hundred years since the transaltantic slave trade began during the 15th century.
Spiritual guru and 2020 White House hopeful Marianne Williamson released her plan to pay between $200 billion to $500 billion in reparations to descendants of African slaves in the United States.
Rep. Ilhan Omar mocked President Donald Trump and his supporters on social media by touting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi took her back to Africa.
A new poll found that a majority of Americans do not want the government to provide cash reparations to descendants of slaves.
On Sunday, failed Texas senate candidate Beto O’Rourke sought to stir his fading presidential hopes with a blog post published on Medium.
