The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

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.

Four controversial statues will stay on a university building in south London after locals voted for them to stay.

PHILADELPHIA — I thought a lot about the legacy of slavery this past Juneteenth.

The former England centre opened up about receiving comments about bananas, fried chicken and slavery and being greeted with a racial slur