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The US president’s attack on the Smithsonian isn’t about truth. It’s about erasure, and ‘erasure is violence’

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of redistributing land to redress the nation’s legacies of slavery.

Vast majority unaware how many people were enslaved and for how long, although poll finds support for reparations is rising

MPs likely to be whipped against move to add protections, as government says it is already taking action on risk of forced labour

The UK’s 2015 Modern Slavery Act is ten years old on March 26. When it was passed, it was billed as “world-leading” legislation – the first of its kind to introduce a dedicated legal framework to deal with modern slavery.

Millions of people were abducted from west Africa and forcibly trafficked to the Americas over the 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade, from the 15th to the 19th century.

MEASURES that would have banned companies which use forced labour from getting backing from GB Energy could be overturned by Labour this week.

Measures blocking companies involved in modern slavery from receiving public money could be overturned

Cambridge is in a dispute with academics after an exhibition linked Stephan Hawking with the slave trade