The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

BALTIMORE — Racial reconciliation and healing will be the key issues on the agenda this week when a major religious denomination brings its national convention to Baltimore.

Judge rules in case of Saudi diplomat who allegedly forced Filipino worker to wear a bell 24 hours a day

Supreme Court rules diplomats who profit by exploiting their workers in conditions of modern slavery can no longer rely on diplomatic immunity

It officially adopted the American Theory of Government: First Come Rights; Then Comes Government to Secure These Rights

Overseas students have vanished from courses and then been found working in exploitative conditions

The state education board asked the group to "reconsider their phrasing"

Democrat on education board says ‘that’s not going to be acceptable’

The chief of the Dutch central bank has apologized for the institution’s involvement in the 19th-century slave trade, the latest expression of contrition in the Netherlands linked to the country’s historic role in the trade in enslaved people

A measure that would change the California constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in criminal punishment did not pass the Senate in time to make a deadline for the November ballot, disappointing prison reform advocates who called it critical in addressing the state’s history of enslavement.

The Texas State Board of Education is fielding proposals to update the state’s public school social studies curriculum this summer.

Other lives: Sociology academic who helped universities to start acknowledging their part in slavery and colonialism