Slavery Abolition

The FBI issued a statement Friday saying racist and threatening text messages sent to Black communities after the presidential election are also circulating in Hispanic and LGBTQ+ communities and reaching high school students.The big picture: Federal and state authorities initially reported on texts containing disturbing references to slavery...Read More

The logo for the Justice Department is seen before a news conference at the Department of Justice, Aug. 23, 2024, in Washington   -   Copyright © africanews Mark Schiefelbein/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved. Last updated: 09/11 - 16:55 USA Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country…

Joanne Hennessy is a partner and head of business immigration and Duncan Reed is a partner in TLT’s commercial team Construction has long been regarded as a high-risk sector for modern slavery due to ongoing challenges such as labour and skills shortages, resulting in hiring from abroad and using temporary…

Portugal’s president said late on Tuesday (Apr. 23) that his country was responsible for crimes committed during the transatlantic slave trade and the colonial era, and suggested there was a need for reparations. "We have to pay the costs," Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said, adding Portugal should look for ways…

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As she was flogged, Roya Heshmati chanted "in the name of woman, in the name of life, the clothes of slavery are torn..." By TZVI JOFFRE JANUARY 7, 2024 00:59 Updated: JANUARY 7, 2024 18:31 Iranian women walk on a street during the revival of morality police in Tehran, Iran,…

GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley tried to explain away her recent failure to mention slavery when describing the cause of the Civil War and instead used one of the oldest “I’m not racist” lines in the book. Last month, Haley forgot to mention slavery when asked about the cause of…

In the last five years, hundreds of women have been saved from domestic slavery and violent abuse in the UK. More than 220 of those rescues were carried out by a small, fearless band of volunteers. Channel 4 News has had exclusive access to the group, who’ve made it their…

Dame Sarah Thornton was the UK’s Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner from 2019 until last year. Ciaran spoke to her from Leeds and began by asking what she made of what she saw unfold in that report. Read More

No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience has been spitting out pretty wrong answers. We may earn a commission from links on this page. Read More