The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

You may have sung the first verse of Stephen Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home,” but are you aware of the story of slavery told in the remaining verses? Historian Emily Bingham has published a book about it. Tom Eblen gets details and we listen to a version performed by the…

Global failure to redress race-based injustice has led to higher death rates and worsened discrimination, UN says

Exclusive: In her final interview as independent anti-slavery commissioner, Dame Sara Thornton tells The Independent the government’s asylum overhaul has been driven by ‘political calculation’ and the fight against modern slavery in Britain is ‘not what it was’ under Boris Johnson and Priti Patel

At almost the last minute before the parliamentary session ended, after months of pushback from the House of Lords and despite vehement protests from those supporting refugees and migrants, the UK government has succeed in introducing the Nationality and Borders Act.

Scholar Samuel Perry says the myth of a "Christian nation" has distorted American history from 1690 to Trump

A series of pop-up exhibitions have been announced for the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Building

Edward and Sophie’s Jubilee trip was met with demands for reparations over slavery, and followed William and Kate’s controversial overseas visit.

BALTIMORE — Sixteen months after making global headlines with an announcement that founder Johns Hopkins owned slaves, Johns Hopkins University has updated a biography of the 19th-century business tycoon on its website, revising the language in what a university official described as “minor edits” to the information about Hopkins’ relationship…

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name.

In Harvard’s pledge to atone for its ties to slavery, it identified dozens of people who were enslaved by the university’s first leaders and faculty members

Fast food chain under pressure to join the Fair Food Program as several cases of what has been called modern day slavery on farms show the need for corporations to end these abuses