The Latest Breaking News from Slavery

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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