Slavery Abolition

An Illinois city has become the first in America to embark upon a reparations program for its Black residents after its local council approved the implementation of its first such initiative to tackle the legacy of slavery. Late on Monday night aldermen in Evanston – a suburban community in Chicago…

EVANSTON, Ill. — Evanston, Illinois, on Monday became the first U.S. city to make reparations available to its Black residents for past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery. The Chicago suburb’s City Council voted 8-1 to distribute $400,000 to eligible black households. Each qualifying household would receive $25,000 for…

Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “The Next Revolution,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) discussed his recent visit to see firsthand the crisis at United States’ border with Mexico. Gimenez described the situation at the border as “modern-day slavery.” He added the border crisis is seeing the molestation of young females, indentured…

One of 2021’s most honored films — nominated for five BAFTAs and a Critics’ Choice award, as well as the winner of a Golden Globe — and which features a star-studded cast including two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch, will be conspicuously absent in this year’s Oscars.…

After 45 years and 10 unsuccessful attempts by the state legislature, Maryland's Senate unanimously voted on Friday to no longer sing "Maryland, My Maryland" as the state song. The song's full version referred to former President Abraham Lincoln as a "tyrant," a "vandal" and a "despot." Though the Senate voted…

By Chibuike Nwabuko Abuja (Sundiata Post) – The Senate, on Tuesday, began moves to review the Labour Act to provide stiffer penalties for various offences ranging from modern slavery, child Labour to discrimination against women in the work place.  The amendment to the Labour law seeks to introduce stiffer penalties…

News   •   Mar 16, 2021 08:31 GMT As part of a strategic operation police have conducted seven warrants at addresses across the capital and in Hertfordshire. The warrants were part of Operation Snoop, an investigation lead by the Met’s Modern Slavery and Child Exploitation Unit into the trafficking of Chinese women…

Navigation for News Categories The government is being urged to get on with action against modern slavery. File image. Photo: 123rf A coalition of 85 businesses and organisations has asked the government to launch a promised inquiry into whether a modern slavery act is needed in New Zealand. The campaign…

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,…