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A change to the Sanskrit name is backed by PM Modi’s BJP, which says the word ‘India’ is a symbol of colonial slavery.

PragerU is not accredited but has become a key tool in pushing false claims to youngsters – and raked in $200m from 2018 to 2022

Tania Branigan’s Red Memory and Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo are among the titles in the running for the £50,000 award

Worldwide, 50 million people are victims of modern slavery. We need to target those pulling the strings, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

Portrait unveiled at country house once owned by plantation owner who enslaved actor’s relatives in 18th century

Letters: Britain should come clean about the ‘illustrious’ historical figures in its citizenship test, writes Arthur Cunha. And other readers reflect on an uncomfortable legacy

A FORMER Conservative MP has apologised “for the acts of my ancestors” after an academic named her as a descendant of a merchant with links to…

Antoinette Sandbach ‘struggling with difficult history’ after initially threatening to sue University of Cambridge over academic’s research

“Reparations have been paid for other wrongs and obviously far more quickly, far more speedily than reparations for what I consider the greatest atrocity and crime in the history of mankind: transatlantic chattel slavery.” So noted the eminent Jamaican international jurist Judge Patrick Robinson, when launching the 115-page Brattle Report…

In a tweet that has gone viral, a far-right Dutch politician known for his anti-Islam stance has claimed there is a "market" in Ethiopia where Muslim women are being sold, with a video to back it up. In the images, a crowd can be seen surrounding people kneeling on the…

The former MP’s quest to break the public link with her ancestors is misguided. Better to accept our legacy and work for change, says author and broadcaster Alex Renton