The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

Germany's business elite thought they could control the demagogue. Steve Schwarzman and Peter Thiel think that now

Letters: Alan Tanner suggests a way forward in terms of compensation figures. Plus letters from Jocelyn Robson, Zaki Cooper and Terry Fulton

Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy says reparations for the U.K.’s role in the slave trade are not about the “transfer of cash” and reiterated his country’s position that leans toward focusing on the future

The Foreign Secretary is in Africa as he pursues a ‘fresh approach’ to partnerships across the continent.

Missing Pieces Project maps buildings in 189 locations where African American abolitionists spoke against slavery

A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children

Commonwealth countries want talks on slavery reparations but the United Kingdom -- engaged in soul-searching over its former empire for several years now -- is not open to financial compensation, officials and analysts say.

The call for justice is not going away. Rather than ignore it, Labour should be entering the conversation – and shaping it, says academic Kojo Koram

Letters: Readers respond to Keir Starmer saying Britain will not participate in any slavery reparations

After months of relentless gang violence, thousands of killings, and the unseating of a government, Haiti is faced with another heartbreaking issue which seems likely to prolong the Caribbean island nation’s woes for another generation. Testimonies collected by Amnesty International have uncovered how Haiti’s armed gangs are enlisting hundreds of…

Some of the ways migrants are exploited in the workforce get a lot of public attention. We hear tragic stories about wage theft, forced unpaid overtime, unsafe work conditions or discrimination. And we are likely to hear more such grim stories revealed at a NSW parliamentary inquiry that will examine…