The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

Prop 6, which would have banned involuntary servitude in prisons, fails in blow to criminal justice reform advocates

In May 2023, renowned Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spent ten days in the West Bank and Israel, where he spent half his time with Breaking the Silence, a group of former Israeli soldiers who now oppose the occupation.

California has rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor

Former Labor senator Chris Evans has been appointed as the inaugural anti-slavery commissioner but civil groups want him properly funded and given real power.

With an estimated 41,000 people living in modern slavery in Australia, Chris Evans’ role to address exploitative practices such as forced marriage and deceptive recruiting

Scholar Keidrick Roy on the lessons of 19th-century Black thinkers who resisted racist notions of "liberty"

The FBI is investigating a disturbing series of anonymous text messages targeting Black Americans across multiple states, threatening them with references to slavery and plantations, sparking widespread fear and outrage.

The Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, or Dak’Art, has opened in the Senegalese capital

An Introduction To Constitutional Law Video Library: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), The Slaughter-House Cases (1873), Bradwell v. Illinois (1873), U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876), Strauder v. West Virginia (1880), The Civil Rights Case (1883), Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886), Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Racist text messages referencing slavery target Black individuals nationwide, prompting investigations and condemnation from civil rights organizations.

The messages, sent anonymously, were reported in several states, including New York, Alabama, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee