The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

Mauritanians head to the polls on Saturday with incumbent President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani expected to win a second consecutive term. But in a country deeply divided between the Arab-Berber community at the helm and a Black Mauritanian populace still suffering the effects of slavery, a controversial law making Arabic the…

The legislation seeks to address those "directly wronged and traumatized by the ills of slavery, Jim Crow, and structural and institutional racism"

Calls are mounting for governments to pay reparations for slavery, colonialism and other crimes, but such projects are often dismissed as unworkable. New research explores the options for making reparations a reality, including debt cancellation and redirecting financial sanctions.

Many prisoners clean toilets and prep food with no pay – as the state charges $50 a day for their incarceration

Valentina Gomez, 25, called Juneteenth the ‘most ratchet’ of holidays as she slammed the idea of reparations for slavery

The Equal Justice Initiative nonprofit invoked the Juneteenth holiday as it dedicated a monument that honors the people who endured and survived slavery

The holiday represents a page-turning from one of the most shameful chapters in American history.

Opal Lee, who helped make Juneteenth a holiday, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year

Juneteenth celebrates a great American achievement, and a triumph for the nation's Founding principles. Also, the culture war over the holiday is lame, and hopefuly coming to an end.