Slavery Abolition

Topline Texas educators proposed the Texas State Board of Educators teach slavery as “involuntary relocation” in second-grade classrooms – the latest attempt from Republican lawmakers to downplay the horrors of slavery and create curriculum seen as more patriotic. Texas educators proposed the Texas State Board of Educators teach slavery as…

Canada needs migrants to help meet the demand of the labour market. Filipinos are migrating to Canada to meet that demand, but are faced with exploitation through the Temporary Foreign Workers Program. Evangeline Cayanan and her daughter McKenna Rose. Credit: Migrante Alberta June is Filipino Heritage Month, and for the…

Thursday 30 June 2022 5:30 am A CCTV camera is seen in the King’s Cross area. (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images)  In the West Midlands, police developed an algorithm to identify suspected perpetrators of modern slavery in minutes, a process which normally takes weeks or even months, according…

The debate over abortion is plagued by euphemisms that favor the anti-abortion movement.  The most obvious example of this is the term “pro-life,” the nonsensical term anti-abortion activists have adopted to sanitize their stance against bodily autonomy. But today, with abortion rights being rescinded across the country, it’s more important…

Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan — Reuters Foreign conspiracy will be rejected by nation, says Imran Khan.Says "rigging plan of government will not succeed".Says entire country has risen against corrupt and imported rulers.PTI Chairman Imran Khan stated on Sunday that the current government, which came to power through a…

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, arrives for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at Kigali Convention Centre on 24 June 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda. (Photo: Luke Dray/Getty Images) Prince Charles told Commonwealth leaders on Friday that the choice to become a republic or abandon the queen…

Prince Charles expressed his “personal sorrow” over “slavery’s enduring impact” in a speech to Commonwealth leaders in Rwanda on Friday. “I want to acknowledge that the roots of our contemporary association run deep into the most painful period of our history,” the Prince of Wales said at the Commonwealth Heads…

BERLIN: “I’m interested in understanding why the world is haunted by injuries produced by modernity and its massive crimes, such as fascism, colonialism, slavery... What Algerian psychoanalyst Karima Lazali calls ‘The rogues of the Enlightenment,’” says French-Algerian artist Kader Attia, curator of the 12th Berlin Biennale, entitled “Still Present!” The biennale,…

As recession fears pushed stock markets and cryptocurrencies to two-year lows last week, things are looking better this Juneteenth, as a federal holiday observes the end of slavery in the United States. Stock markets are closed today, which provides an extra day for cryptocurrencies to show bullish momentum and regain…

In addition to being Father's Day, Sunday is also Juneteenth, an annual holiday celebrated every June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the US. To celebrate both occasions, Google created a Doodle that spotlights the Black family and fatherhood while exploring the meaning of emancipation and freedom. The…