The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...

NSW Anti-Slavery Commissioner James Cockayne says he is monitoring the risk of slave labour being used in NSW government ...

Born under the shackles of slavery, Harriet Tubman refused to accept a life where she wasn't free. Even after escaping, she ...

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved ...

The 'Black Belt' region in the Southern United States is significant historically, geologically, and socio-politically. Known ...

Inspiration, followed by motivation and a considerable amount of perspiration changed the lives of many former slaves and ...

Justice Mugambe, 49, also a High Court judge in Uganda, was found guilty of conspiring to facilitate the commission of a ...

Hassan Sentamu (Image: Met Police) Hassan Sentamu, 18, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years for stabbing 15-year-old Elianne Andam to death in a row over a teddy bear. He had a history ...

The "long, lanky" man carrying the American flag on Decoration Day in May 1909 was a familiar sight at patriotic events in ...

Due to centuries of slavery and Jim Crow segregation in the South, the Athens economy remains deeply unequal with persistent ...