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A man from China was kidnapped by a gang and used as a “blood slave” in Cambodia for nearly half a year before escaping this month.

Edinburgh’s municipal government has been condemned for a slapping a Black Lives Matter-inspired plaque on one of the Scottish capital’s most iconic monuments, accusing the statesman it commemorates of personal responsibility for “more than half a million enslaved Africans cross[ing] the Atlantic.”

Multiple human rights organizations expanded existing complaints at the International Criminal Court and United Nations against Cuba this week with over 1,000 testimonies from individuals formerly enslaved by the regime in fields as diverse as medicine and seafaring.

China’s state-run Global Times published a summary of an interview with former President George W. Bush on Wednesday to discourage calls for a boycott of the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

American lawmakers sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday demanding an explanation for the IOC’s business deals with two Chinese apparel companies that source their cotton out of Xinjiang, a far-west occupied region where evidence suggests widespread use of slave labor.

Loyola University academics argue vehemently in favor of the teachiing of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in K-12 schools.

Chinese state outlets and government-censored social media users unleashed a “tsunami of anger” against the American computer chip maker Intel on Wednesday in response to news that the company sent a letter to Chinese suppliers warning it not to source products from Xinjiang.

Appearing Monday on the Fox News Channel, former NFL player Jack Brewer slammed former NFL quarterback turned woke activist Colin Kaepernick for compared the league’s draft process to slavery.

Only weeks ago, former NFL player Colin Kaepernick was claiming that he was still training for a pro football comeback.

Netflix gave Colin Kaepernick appearances and speaking roles in their documentary series about his life, Colin In Black & White.

During the House Judiciary Committee’s Wednesday markup, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) noted that the Democrat South’s post-Civil War gun control for former slaves and free black citizens shows why we must be armed.

Officials in New York City voted unanimously earlier this week to remove a 188-year-old statue of founding father Thomas Jefferson.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and other state lawmakers created a task force to study how best to provide reparations to black persons now may expand benefits beyond those with ancestors who were slaves to people who have faced other alleged injustices after slavery was abolished.

“Hundreds” of failed asylum seekers could see their deportation decisions reversed after a Vietnamese migrant won a case against the government’s decision to deny her refugee status after she was trafficked into the country for forced labour in a cannabis farm and as a prostitute.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed Wednesday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents apprehending Haitian migrants illegally entering the United States through the southern border is “worse than what we witnessed in slavery

Democrat Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam live-streamed on Wednesday the removal of the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

The Taliban terror group’s reconquering of Kabul on Sunday broke the “shackles” of a “cultural enslavement” Afghanistan endured since the U.S. invaded the country in 2001, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, a hardline Islamist, argued on Monday.

A German woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group has been charged with membership in a terror group.

A German-Tunisian Islamic State widow has been sentenced to just four years in prison after being convicted of enslaving two Yazidi women while living in the former caliphate.

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of PBS’ “Firing Line,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) said that Cuba’s regime practices “slave labor” and “human trafficking” as policy and that the international community should stop doing business “with the Cuban repression

The New York Times journalist who led the slavery-focused “1619 Project” praised Cuba during a 2019 interview as the “most equal multi-racial country in our hemisphere,” owing its success in that regard to socialism.

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson slammed the teaching of Critical Race Theory to children during a speech Sunday.

Jamaica plans to seek billions of pounds in reparations from the UK as compensation for the Atlantic slave trade.

“To be racist, is to constantly, consistently, deny, deny, deny, like Donald Trump,” Critical Race Theory activist Ibram X. Kendi said.

Chinese cotton industry groups launched a campaign Thursday to “build a homegrown independent sustainable standard and certification system” to shirk condemnation from the systems that exist internationally in response to evidence of widespread use of slave labor to pick cotton in China.

Biden said the holiday reminded Americans of the “promise of equality” that was made at the end of slavery but that failed to find fulfillment in the current systemically racist society of the United States.

A report published Tuesday by the website The Information accused Apple of partnering with Chinese manufacturers that openly, and illegally, reject individuals from jobs based on race and ethnic background – the same ethnic backgrounds of people they stand accused of exploiting as slaves.

Critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi, author and contributing writer for The Atlantic, on Tuesday revealed “so many students” have come to his classrooms “angry” that they never learned about systemic racism and racism in high school.

The left’s targeting of historic names it deems racist is ever-broadening and now includes birds, which the National Audubon Society claims honor people associated with slavery and white supremacy.

An English church will create an “educational area” for the former slave trader who became a clergyman and abolitionist, and wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace”, after the Church of England had ordered a Black Lives Matter-style review of all of its memorials for “contested heritage”.

University of Chicago at Illinois (UIC) trustees have voted to approve the removal of the name of legendary Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall from its law school, citing evidence that Marshall approved of slavery and traded in slaves.

The woke chairman of Britain’s National Trust has resigned ahead of moves to oust him at the heritage organisation’s upcoming annual general meeting.

Police officers in Norwich, England have recorded a “hate-related public order offence” against a local resident who flew the Confederate flag to mark the anniversary of the death of Civil War General Stonewall Jackson.

Administrators in La Rochelle, France, have placed signs explaining the city’s links to the slave trade on several streets, with the mayor claiming the signs are simply educational.

Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen’s affinity for drinking tea will be examined in a Black Lives Matter-style “historical interrogation” at a museum honouring the famed writer.

The Biden administration proposed a rule that urges the development of K-12 civics instruction based on Critical Race Theory programs such as the “1619 Project.”