Slavery Abolition

Nashville, Tenn. Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the U.S., gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. But after an initial burst of action, the movement to have it recognized as an official holiday in the states has largely stalled. Although almost every…

The Anambra State Police command has uncovered a hotel called Gally Gally in Nkpor region of the state, where teenagers are used for prostitution and s3x slavery. Naija News reports that DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, Spokesperson of the state police command, in a statement on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of the…

In 1828, years before she took the name Sojourner Truth, a Black woman who had escaped slavery with her infant daughter won a court fight in New York’s Hudson Valley to bring her son, Peter, home from Alabama. It was a historic case of a Black woman seeking the release…

A total of 44 construction firms have been named on a £35bn facilities management framework that requires reporting on modern slavery, prompt payment and improving opportunities for underrepresented groups. The framework provider Crown Commercial Service (CCS) named the winners, among which are the facilities management arms of Kier, Mace, Galliford…

PURR-FECT PICKS 11:31, 11 May 2022Updated: 12:03, 11 May 2022DEONNA PURRAZZO has named John Cena, The Rock, Steve Austin and Ric Flair as wrestlers worthy of gracing a wrestling version of Mount Rushmore. The iconic American National Memorial sculpture features the carved heads of former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,…

Now that we’ve had a moment to digest the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe vs. Wade, one thing is clear: Words have lost their meaning. The court’s three newest justices, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, all said under oath during their confirmation hearings…

Former state Rep. Vernon Jones, a conservative Democrat-turned-Republican running for Congress in Georgia, labeled the Democratic Party “the most extreme organization in the world” as he recalled the party’s support for slavery and the Ku Klux Klan, as well as its current attacks on law enforcement and “independent think.” In…

The worst Democratic gerrymander in the country is arguably in Illinois, as it set off a high-stakes game of musical chairs among the state’s five Republican House members. Nathaniel Rakich: One of our greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln, was a Republican from Illinois. But the state’s new gerrymandered congressional map seems…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Terrell Osborne knows well what happens when urban renewal comes to communities of color. As a child growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, in the 1950s and 1960s, huge swaths of his neighborhood of Lippitt Hill, a center of Black life at the foot of the…

I once wrote a law review article about scandals at the United States Supreme Court. I sent a copy of it to a Supreme Court justice. That justice was Samuel Alito. I’d told Justice Alito about “Scandal! Early Supreme Court News Coverage and the Justice-Journalist Divide” at a work dinner…