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Passover Seders offer a time to talk about Israel protests

This year, when the slavery-to-freedom story of Passover unfolds, mass demonstrations in Israel will be top of mind for many Jews around the globe

The Independent UK

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

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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

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

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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

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

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The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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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The Guardian - UK

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

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.

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