The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

From ancient slavery to the factory floor, progress has often relied on the exploitation of human beings. We might like to believe those days are well behind us. But in the digital age, AI and the metaverse risk repeating that pattern with new forms of invisible labour and inequality.

Elon Musk's X post praising 'the Whites in the West' for ending slavery drew ridicule and rebukes from historians and campaigners, but archival records show a more complex, painful history.

Suriname and the Netherlands have launched a €66 million fund to support social projects for descendants of enslaved and indigenous peoples – part of a wider effort to confront the lasting legacy of colonial slavery.

Ike Ekweremadu serving prison sentence after being found guilty of conspiring to exploit a man for his kidney

A Black firefighter is suing the FDNY for $25 million after enduring a hostile environment, including a vile 'noose video'.

Bloomfield firefighter Patrick Thomas has filed a federal civil rights suit seeking approximately £19 million ($25 million), alleging a colleague handed him a tied noose during training and that the department failed to act.

Between NIN’s Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral came Trent Reznor’s most extreme artistic statement

Improper analogue to support ban on arms on private property open to the public.

Helpline run by Unseen receives hundreds of calls a year from potential victims of exploitation

On first official visit to UK, group calls for mutually beneficial programme to clean up ‘mess’ left by colonialism

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