Slavery Abolition

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…

Website of the Year World 12 Feb, 2021 07:28 AM2 minutes to read A Queensland woman has been charged in relation to in an alleged sexual slavery ring uncovered in Brisbane last week. Hannah Christina Stead, 23, appeared in Brisbane Arrests Court on Friday after being charged with conducting a…

Image above: Portrait of Mollie Williams (Mississippi), taken as part of the Federal Writers’ Project This article was published online on February 9, 2021. On a rainy Thursday afternoon in November, I stepped inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, D.C. On past visits, I’d…

As Twitchy recently reported, the San Francisco United School District recently decided to change the names of 44 schools, including ones named after George Washington and Abraham Lincoln (who didn’t “demonstrate that black lives mattered to him”). In the introduction to his interview with Gabriela López, the head of the…