The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

The state education board asked the group to "reconsider their phrasing"

Democrat on education board says ‘that’s not going to be acceptable’

The chief of the Dutch central bank has apologized for the institution’s involvement in the 19th-century slave trade, the latest expression of contrition in the Netherlands linked to the country’s historic role in the trade in enslaved people

A measure that would change the California constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in criminal punishment did not pass the Senate in time to make a deadline for the November ballot, disappointing prison reform advocates who called it critical in addressing the state’s history of enslavement.

The Texas State Board of Education is fielding proposals to update the state’s public school social studies curriculum this summer.

Other lives: Sociology academic who helped universities to start acknowledging their part in slavery and colonialism

Slavery Remembrance Day has been marked on August 23 in Liverpool since 1999

Nearly 60 per cent of respondents to a survey in Moreland have chosen Woi-wurrung word Merri-bek as a new council name.

The renowned institution says student digs called “The Colony” does not reflect the values of the college

Al-Husseina Amadou was just one of thousands of girls in west Africa who are still bought cheaply as a wahaya, or ‘fifth wife’

In 2022, voters in five states — Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont — will decide on ballot measures to repeal language from their state constitutions that allows slavery or involuntary servitude for the punishment of a crime, or, in Vermont, for the payment of debts, damages, or fines.