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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After two years of deliberations, California’s Reparations Task Force on Thursday is sending its final report and recommendations to the state Capitol, where Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers will ultimately decide how the state should atone for slavery.

With a record-breaking 30 million tonnes of sugar produced last year, India recently became the world's largest sugar producer, surpassing Brazil. But at what cost? Every year, from September to March, over 1.4 million Indian workers migrate internally, searching for work in sugar cane fields. The labourers are paid a…

Authoritarians don't just want to control the distant past, they feel entitled to erase events we all remember

Australia is not immune to the rapidly growing global problem of modern slavery. In fact, new research has found the number of people living in modern slavery has more than doubled in the past four years, rising to an estimated 41,000.

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years. Many describe contemporary America in the same terms. We’re a house divided against itself and in danger of collapse. We see dire prognostics about America’s future due to an array of…

A HISTORIAN has accused Labour of contributing to Scotland’s “amnesia around slavery”, saying the party should not try to “politicise” the…

The cycle will take place from June 26 to June 30, days before the Tour de France.

In 2022, 12,500 cannabis plants were seized from commercial cannabis farms across Avon and Somerset, worth an estimated £7 million in street value

Retired New York Giants LB Mark Herzlich has joined the International Justice Mission in an effort to end modern-day slavery.

Letters: Making links with the home country of your parents and grandparents is important for identity formation, writes Andrew P Smith, while Robin Cameron recommends the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool

We’ve long since become accustomed to Sen. Josh Hawley’s online provocations. The Missouri Republican (or perhaps his staff) is a prolific poster, one who uses Twitter not to enlighten or inform his constituents but to start fights and stir up politically useful culture wars. For the most part, we prefer…