Slavery Abolition

President Biden’s potential support for reparations for American slavery is analyzed by White House reporter Yamiche Alcindor. Alcindor also discusses what is different about reporting from the White House under Biden versus Donald Trump.Feb. 20, 2021 Read More

Massachusetts’s road to failure runs straight through the digital waiting room of the Democratic State Committee’s video calls. During long, slur- and expletive-filled gatherings, a vanguard of wizened Harvard alumni and outer-ring suburbanites screech over one another in a dread contest for Zoom-mic supremacy, hurling insults at the young, progressive,…

The Rock Marwan Kenzari Black Adam Marwan Kenzari is in final negotiations to join the cast of New Line/DC’s highly anticipated “Black Adam” film starring Dwayne Johnson, according to an individual with knowledge of the project. Although details about Kenzari’s role are being kept under wraps, an insider with knowledge…

We are supposed to believe, if we think about it at all, that modern-day policing is unmoored from its historical past and its beginnings rooted in slavery. Yet examples of historical practices giving birth to current ones are everywhere. Take what in many police jurisdictions are often called street checks,…

Javonte Anderson   | USA TODAY Sandra Lindsay sat calmly as the needle pierced her flesh.  She gazed straight ahead at the swarm of journalists and cameras eager to capture this historic moment: She was receiving the first COVID-19 vaccination in the nation.   As the director of critical care nursing at…

In 1997, the historian Iris Chang published her important, incendiary book The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. It was a vital work of salvage, resurrecting for a new generation the half-forgotten savagery unleashed on Chinese citizens by the Japanese Imperial Army during its march across…

The internal African slave trade was officially abolished in colonial Mali in 1905. But a form of slavery - called "descent-based slavery" - continues today. This is when "slave status" is ascribed to a person, based on their ancestors having allegedly been enslaved by elite slave-owning families. The practice is…

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Lincoln: Divided We Stand is a six-part docuseries, narrated by This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown, that takes a look at the story of the 16th President of the United States. The hope, according to exec producer Nancy Glass, who runs Glass Entertainment, that it is a deep dive…

The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner has published a joint report highlighting the lack of awareness in the financial services sector in relation to issues of forced labour and exploitation of workers. Non-banking areas of the financial industry, such as crypto currencies, accountancy firms, insurance and brokering are noted as having particularly…