Steve Chapman: Crackdown on abortion providers and seekers is reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act
The parallels between anti-abortion states cracking down on abortion seekers and providers and the slavery fight are hard to ...
Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization
Now governments and communities across the US are redistributing land and wealth, from Evanston, Illinois, to Athens, Georgia ...
‘The Bondsman’: Kevin Bacon Is Now a Slave to Satan
Kevin Bacon rises from the dead to take down demons—both his own, and those from the underworld—in The Bondsman, a cheeky ...
Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
Newport's founder left slaves at least $1.7M in today's dollars. Can descendants collect?
One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...
It’s not enough for companies to be aware of modern slavery; the UK needs to prevent it
Ten years ago this week the UK government passed the Modern Slavery Act, an innovative piece of legislation aimed at ...
SLU postpones formal apology for role in slavery after descendants group declines to participate
The decision came soon after the Descendants of the St. Louis University Enslaved informed the university that they would not ...
Wendy Murphy: This is not a brothel, it’s slavery
More than 2,800 men participated in the well-organized sexual abuse and exploitation of young Asian women; some rumored to be ...
Attorney of DPW worker who died on job compares agency’s culture to slavery
Attorney Thiru Vignarajah, who represents the family of deceased trash collector Ronald “Ronnie” Silver II says working at ...
The public can now join the remembrance of York County's slave families at cemetery site
Cultural and Heritage Museums opens the enslaved cemetery at Historic Brattonsville on Saturday, where hundreds of buried ...
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Newport's founder left slaves at least $1.7M in today's dollars. Can descendants collect?
A local court and Taylor's son denied the inheritance. The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the former slaves, but they never received the land or its monetary equivalent. One ...
Couple sentenced to 375 years collectively for forcing Black children to work 'as slaves'
Jeanne Whitefeather, 63, was sentenced to up to 215 years. Donald Lantz, 62, was sentenced to up to 160 years, the Kanawha ...