The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

From banning buses to masks to talking about slavery, here are some of the whackiest and most terrifying state laws being pushed in recent years

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"

Harris’s shocking play about slavery and sex, power and trauma has been dividing audiences since its 2018 Off-Broadway debut. Now it’s opening in the capital

Campaigners allege Uyghur people used as forced labour at some of fast-fashion retailer’s cotton suppliers in China

More than half of Brazil's population is Black, but most have no idea of their precise origins. They only know the broad outlines of their history and the fact that their African ancestors were enslaved and shipped over by the millions. After the abolition of slavery in 1888, the finance…

The teenager was ‘dishevelled and vulnerable’ when he was found by officers

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