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Robin Abcarian: Kids deserve to know the truth about America's racist past. Even if it's painful

Last month, school officials in St. Petersburg, Florida, told teachers to stop showing students a Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated an all-white New Orleans elementary school in the 1960s.

Los Angeles Times

Efforts to tackle modern slavery ‘waning as transparency rules ignored’

Just 29% of organisations required to produce a modern slavery statement have submitted it to the Government registry for 2022, analysis found.

The Independent UK

Unravelling the threads that link us to the slave-owning past

Letters: Readers respond to David Olusoga’s article focusing on how slavery shaped the Guardian, Britain and the world

The Guardian - UK

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The Observer view on the legacies of slavery: a reckoning with our past must shape our future

The Guardian’s research into its links to transatlantic slavery has made us aware of our broader responsibilities

The Guardian - UK

Painting a new pantheon: portrait series honours Black radicals

Artists and writers pay tribute to figures who resisted slavery and racism, as part of Guardian project exploring the paper’s links to enslavement

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian’s slavery links: it’s right to finally confront the wrongs of the past

Letters: Readers respond to the Guardian’s investigation uncovering its founders’ connections with the slave trade

The Guardian - UK

A tale of two cities: the struggle for a Black history of Manchester

The city’s image of protest and rebellion obscures its links to slavery. But there is a push to acknowledge the Black radicalism in its past

The Guardian - UK

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More than money: the logic of slavery reparations

It’s not just about payment. It is about engaging in good faith with the descendants of enslaved people and addressing inequalities – to make a better future possible

The Guardian - UK

King Charles needn’t sell off the crown jewels in atonement for slavery – but Britain must waive Jamaica’s debt

Money can only ever begin to make amends, says activist and former broadcaster Barbara Blake-Hannah

The Guardian - UK

The slave trade and the deep south: accounting for the Cotton capital’s human cost

A visual exploration of how the growth of Manchester as an industrial city had a colossal human cost, the scale of which is difficult to comprehend

The Guardian - UK

Thursday briefing: Why the Home Office’s latest idea to cut the asylum seeker backlog will run aground too

In today’s newsletter: Amelia Gentleman explains why governmental incompetence, not asylum seekers eager to stay in mythical luxury hotels, is at the root of the problem

The Guardian - UK

If we can’t speak honestly about Britain’s links to slavery, we turn our backs on change

Today’s generation is not responsible for what happened two centuries ago – but it can be guilty of refusing to learn from it, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK

Glasgow residents asked to give views on city's slavery legacy

An action plan is to be drawn up to address the issue of the city's links to the slavery

Glasgow Live

From the archive: how the Guardian covered slavery

The paper supported abolition – but backed payment for enslavers, and criticised more radical campaigners. In the US civil war, the editors refused to support the north

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The Manchester Guardian: the limits of liberalism in the kingdom of cotton

Manchester’s liberal establishment backed the abolition of British slavery – but their wealth depended on the labour of enslaved Africans in the United States

The Guardian - UK

Europe’s human rights watchdog warns UK over illegal migration bill

Council of Europe’s experts say bill is ‘step backwards’ in fight against modern slavery

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Guardian owner apologises for founders’ transatlantic slavery links

Scott Trust to invest in decade-long programme of restorative justice after academic research into newspaper’s origins. Plus, why the Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial farce is so unmissable

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UK government and royals called on to investigate slavery links after Guardian apology

UN experts lead calls for public and private bodies to take steps toward restorative justice

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The Guardian - UK

Kindred review – a reductive, hollow view of Black trauma

This depressing, mundane adaptation takes Octavia Butler’s groundbreaking 1979 novel and turns its time-travelling depictions of slavery into something woeful. What a letdown

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: The real origins of the money that helped found the Guardian

In today’s newsletter: The Guardian’s owner has apologised for the newspaper’s historic links to the trade of enslaved people – this is why

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Guardian apology for slavery links, bushfire ‘tragedy’ in NT, Israel crisis deepens

Guardian Australia’s owner announces reckoning with founders’ links to ‘crime against humanity’; bushfires burn through NT national park

The Guardian - UK

UK’s illegal migration bill will force traffickers underground, says May

Former prime minister said Sunak’s immigration proposals could deny support to modern slavery victims

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on our links to slavery: a necessary reckoning with the past

Editorial: Facing up to the fact that Britain was built on subjugation and empire will help navigate the future

The Independent UK

May: Immigration reforms make it harder to catch traffickers and slave drivers

The former prime minister wants talks with the Government to ease her concerns for modern slavery victims.

The Independent UK

Their stories were lost to slavery. Now DNA is writing them

A project in Charleston, South Carolina, is using DNA to trace the African roots of three dozen people buried in the late 1700s

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