Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) blew up during a Wednesday House hearing on the “Dismantle DEI Act,” yelling that there “has been no oppression for the white man in this country!”
Mass texts sent to black Americans across several states telling them they have been selected as slaves to “pick cotton” are being investigated by multiple law enforcement agencies, including the FBI.
The United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said on Tuesday that the situation in the impoverished and violence-torn nation has “regrettably worsened” because ambitious gangs are now attacking territory they do not control yet, rather than merely terrorizing people on the turf they already rule.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Wednesday that it has rescued a 21-year-old Yazidi woman named Fawzia Amin Sido from captivity by the terrorists of Hamas.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a series of reparations bills on Thursday, including a formal apology for slavery, even though the state entered the Union as a free state in 1850.
ROME, Italy — Opposition to gay sex is based on a misreading of the Bible, much as the sacred text was used for centuries to defend slavery, argues gay-rights activist Father James Martin in an article published Wednesday.
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced a bill on Thursday that would require the Department of the Treasury to use America’s representatives at international institutions to pressure those entities not to fund slavery around the world, especially Chinese government’s genocidal Uyghur slavery practices.
Democrat-controlled New York City may enact reparations for slavery in the near future following a decision by the city council on Thursday.
The Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq setenced an unnamed wife of former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced on Tuesday that his office is suing the Chinese mobile phone shopping app Temu.
The mother of 19-year-old Israeli hostage Liri Albag told the media Friday that freed hostage Noa Argamani said that female Israeli hostages, including Albag, were used as slaves in a “luxury villa” in Gaza, doing forced domestic labor.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter published Tuesday to British Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt urging the UK government not to allow the Chinese “fast fashion” company Shein to list on the London Stock Exchange.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Biden Campaign Co-Chair Mitch Landrieu stated that President Joe Biden “trusts the women of America to make decisions about their reproductive health to them and Donald Trump wants to return it to the
The California State Assembly voted Thursday to issue an apology for the state’s role in slavery — though California entered the Union as a “free state” in 1850.
The British Empire and other European colonial powers did not enrich themselves through slavery and colonialism, a report asserted.
Experts, including one of the world’s top researchers on the Uyghur genocide and a senior official in the Department of Labor, told Congress this week that legitimate audits to inspect for slave conditions and other forced labor in China, especially in the occupied Uyghur region, are “impossible.”
Chinese cheap goods e-marketplace Temu “encouraged” suppliers to use Chinese cotton in their products despite the vast majority of that cotton being produced in occupied East Turkistan, the technology news site The Information alleged in a report published on Thursday, apparently disregarding the risk of using materials tainted by slave labor.
Freshman Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) suggested that black Americans should be exempt from paying taxes as a form of reparations.
Two Iraqis accused of being members of the Islamic State group and keeping two young Yazidi girls as slaves.
Tennessee is divided over reparations, with a black Memphis pastor leading the charge against a bill that would prohibit the funding of a proposed reparations study in the state.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has declared reparations are due now to compensate for the trans-Atlantic slave trade as a way to tackle “its legacy” in today’s society, including “systemic racism and white supremacy.”
Boston, Massachusetts, Christian leaders are calling on “white churches” to dole out millions of dollars in reparations to black people to rectify their history with slavery.
German court rejected ISIS woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old girl she kept as a slave to die of thirst.
A group of North Koreans sent to work in a Chinese seafood factory last month rioted and occupied the building to protest unpaid wages. During the protest, they took a factory official hostage and beat a representative of the owning company to death.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference this weekend partially focused on discouraging Western businesses from seeking to invest elsewhere to avoid funding China’s extensive list of ongoing human rights atrocities, warning that divesting from China would be “a historical mistake.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter on Thursday to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Gary Gensler in response to news reports that Shein, a Chinese online retailer that sells women’s clothing at steep discounts, is seeking an initial public offering (IPO) on the U.S. stock market, warning the company is “subject to the whim” of Beijing and thus a threat to investors.
Chinese e-commerce company Temu launched a campaign targeting American consumers reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars this weekend, spearheaded by massive spending on Super Bowl advertising.
The Chinese discount shopping application Temu aired three commercials during Sunday’s Super Bowl, encouraging Americans to “shop like a billionaire” at its website and disregard significant evidence that Temu profits from the Chinese Communist Party’s enslavement of tens of thousands of Uyghurs and other members of Turkic ethnic groups in East Turkistan.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley responded in the affirmative to radio host and author Charlamagne tha God when he asked if she felt “stupid” after she failed to identify slavery as a cause of the Civil War in December.
During Saturday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Life, Liberty & Levin,” host Mark Levin decried what he deemed to be “slavery” that was underway at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman has proposed a $14 trillion reparations plan “for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States.”
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Obokata Tomoya, asked the communist regime of Cuba to respond to evidence that it was selling its citizens to nations such as Spain, Italy, Ghana, and Qatar for labor exploitation in a letter published Tuesday by the human rights organization Prisoners Defenders.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is drawing criticism from her primary opponents and other prominent conservatives after she was asked what caused the Civil War in the United States and failed to mention slavery in her word salad response at an event in New Hampshire Wednesday night.
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday blamed a “Democrat plant” for a question about what caused the Civil War. The presidential candidate neglected to include “slavery” in her list of reasons.
Nikki Haley has come under fire for issuing a word-salad response when asked why America fought in the Civil War.
Former slave-trading countries should pay Barbados $4.9 trillion in reparations, the Caribbean country’s leftist prime minister has demanded.
Rural communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing an “environmental catastrophe” as mining for cobalt and other minerals necessary for manufacturing batteries poisons their land and water with toxic chemicals, experts told Congress on Tuesday.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson delivered a bizarre rant shoehorning slavery and racism into the discussion of critics of his shelter policies.
Immigration continues the cheap labor exploitation encouraged by slavery, according to an article published by the New York Times.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a ban on Tuesday on imports from three Chinese companies selling industrial chemicals, wool, and yarn on the grounds that they profited from Beijing’s state-sponsored slave trade of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Turkic ethnic groups.
