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Clotilda descendants mark anniversary of last slave ship

Descendants of the last African people abducted into slavery and brought to America's shores gathered to pay tribute to their ancestors

The Independent UK

The 'statement' building that could become the new gateway to the Albert Dock

The Dr Martin Luther King Jr Building will feature in a major redevelopment led by National Museums Liverpool

Liverpool Echo

Right unveils anti-woke social studies

"American Birthright" elevates Western civilization, pushes Christianity and rejects all talk of "social justice"

Salon

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LZ Granderson: Texas keeps trying to make slavery sound less slaveryish

Involuntary relocation.

Los Angeles Times

Racial healing to top agenda as Episcopalians converge on Baltimore for their 80th churchwide convention

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.

Tribune News Service

Diplomats who exploit domestic staff cannot rely on immunity, says UK supreme court

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

The Guardian - UK

Diplomat in UK to face court action for ‘subjecting domestic worker to modern slavery’ in world first

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

The Independent UK

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What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant

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

Reason

Human traffickers ‘using UK universities as cover’

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

The Guardian - UK

Texas educators want to nix "slavery"

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

Salon

Texas considers calling slavery ‘involuntary relocation’ in public school textbooks

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

The Independent UK

Dutch central bank chief apologizes for links to slavery

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

The Independent UK

Anti-slavery measure sits in California Senate, disappointing prison reform advocates

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.

Tribune News Service

Texas education board members push back on proposal to use “involuntary relocation” to describe slavery

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

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The Guardian - UK

Ian Law obituary

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

Liverpool Echo

Activities, workshops and more coming to National Museums Liverpool for Slavery Remembrance Day

Slavery Remembrance Day has been marked on August 23 in Liverpool since 1999

ABC News

Moreland residents choose Indigenous word to replace council name linked to slavery

Nearly 60 per cent of respondents to a survey in Moreland have chosen Woi-wurrung word Merri-bek as a new council name.

The Independent UK

Cambridge University changes ‘colony’ name in bid to break ties with slavery

The renowned institution says student digs called “The Colony” does not reflect the values of the college

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The Guardian - UK

‘He bought me like a chicken’: the struggle to end slavery in Niger

Al-Husseina Amadou was just one of thousands of girls in west Africa who are still bought cheaply as a wahaya, or ‘fifth wife’

Ballotpedia

Voters in five states will decide in November on removing constitutional language permitting enslavement or servitude as criminal punishments or debt payments

In 2022, voters in five states — Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont — will decide on ballot measures to repeal language from their state constitutions that allows slavery or involuntary servitude for the punishment of a crime, or, in Vermont, for the payment of debts, damages, or fines.

Evening Standard

Goldsmiths to keep slavery statues after local vote for them to stay

Four controversial statues will stay on a university building in south London after locals voted for them to stay.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Jenice Armstrong: Let’s help this professor get the US to declare racism a public health crisis

PHILADELPHIA — I thought a lot about the legacy of slavery this past Juneteenth.

The Independent UK

Luther Burrell claims racism is ‘rife’ in rugby: ‘That’s the environment’

The former England centre opened up about receiving comments about bananas, fried chicken and slavery and being greeted with a racial slur

Salon

Anti-choice right gloats, and dreams big

On social media, far right dunks extensively, promises national abortion ban and "thousand-year White Boy Summer"

Evening Standard

Prince Charles expresses ‘sorrow’ over slavery’s ‘enduring impact’ at Commonwealth meeting in Rwanda

Charles told the gathering he could not “describe the depths of my personal sorrow at the suffering of so many” during slavery.

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