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All options considered for South Africa coalition talks

In tonight's edition: South Africa's MK Party says it will engage with the ANC as coalition talks continue. Also, for the first time, Zanzibar commemorates the abolition of slavery. The island is part of Tanzania and was a key stopping off point for Arab slave traders across East Africa. Plus…

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Shortlisted designs revealed for London's transatlantic slavery memorial

The memorial is planned to be unveiled in east London in summer 2026

Evening Standard

Will the Anglican church come clean and pay its debt over slavery? Not from what we have seen so far

As terrible facts emerge about its level of complicity, we expect a just and humane response – but have yet to receive one, says theologian and broadcaster Robert Beckford

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UK care agencies accused of exploiting foreign workers caught in debt traps

Exclusive: Experts raise alarm over ‘national scandal’ that has hallmarks of trafficking and modern slavery

The Guardian - UK

Vulnerable workers coming to UK in post-Brexit deal at risk of bullying and sexual harassment, report finds

Exclusive: ‘Sometimes it feels as if slavery is legal again’: Agricultural workers describe abuse on the government’s seasonal visa scheme

The Independent UK

Beatings, brandings, suicides: life on plantations owned by Church of England missionary arm

Documents from Lambeth Palace archives show how one of Justin Welby’s predecessors approved the purchase of enslaved people for the notorious Codrington sugar estate

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: how Church of England’s ties to chattel slavery went to top of hierarchy

Lambeth Palace documents show purchase of enslaved people in 18th century approved by Anglican archbishop

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Free Church of Scotland under fire for failure to apologise over slavery money

Church statement expressing ‘grief’ that members took money from plantation owners in 1844 condemned as ‘shameful’

The Guardian - UK

Black Farmers In Brazil Changing Views On Coffee Production

Raphael Brandao beams with pride as he describes the high-end Brazilian coffee he produces with beans sourced exclusively from Black farmers in a country where many still associate the product with slavery.

International Business Times

Beyoncé’s display of the American flag raises questions for Black people

The pop star has been draped in the star-spangled banner for her album. This pride in the flag is misplaced

The Guardian - US

Magdalene Odundo review – quietly devastating defiance in an English stately home

Ceramics by Odundo at this Palladian mansion sit seamlessly yet purposefully alongside existing pieces, symbols of remembrance and the venue’s legacy of slavery

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s deeper than slavery’: Lisbon street project reclaims Portugal’s unseen black history

Plaques in city now mark the places where its African community has lived, worked and transformed the city

The Guardian - UK

Modi provoking people to incite riots, says Kharge in Bihar

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge accused PM Narendra Modi of provoking people to instigate riots. He said people should vote for Mr. Modi only if they wanted slavery.

The Hindu

From Victorian London to a Jamaica slave plantation: Literary star Zadie Smith on her new novel

Our guest is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors of her generation. More than 20 years after bursting onto the literary scene with her debut novel "White Teeth", Zadie Smith's sixth book "The Fraud" is out in French – based on real events in Victorian England. The…

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Hundreds of potentially trafficked children ‘abandoned by Home Office’

Exclusive: 1,871 possible trafficking or modern slavery victims left open to exploitation after falling out of UK system, FoI data reveals

The Guardian - UK

So empire and the slave trade contributed little to Britain’s wealth? Pull the other one, Kemi Badenoch

The business and trade secretary played into the ideological tosh that the wonders of the Industrial Revolution were funded by beer brewers and sheep farmers

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Haitian Groups Demand Billions In Reparations From France

Haitian advocacy groups are calling for billion in reparations from France for historical injustices related to slavery and colonialism. The demand rei...

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