Former Vice President Joe Biden did not sponsor or co-sponsor any of the six bills recognizing Juneteenth during his time in the U.S. Senate, though he is now attempting to champion the holiday.
The Lloyd’s of London corporate insurance marketplace and the Greene King pub chain will both pay reparation to the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community over historic links to slavery.
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came out Friday in favor of England rugby fans singing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” at a time when the historical context of the song is being reviewed.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wondered this week if Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) should consider changing the name of the Democrat Party given her newfound commitment to purging the U.S. Capitol of all things reminiscent of the Confederacy.
A great-grandson of “Aunt Jemima” says that his family legacy will be “erased” now that Quaker Foods plans to eliminate the Aunt Jemima brand of pancake mix and syrup.
The British left’s flagship newspaper is facing the call to eat its own tail, after more than 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for the liberal, pro-Black Lives Matter Guardian to be shut down over its historical links to slavery and for siding with the Confederate states during the American Civil War.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) claimed during a floor speech on Tuesday that the United States did not inherit slavery but rather “created it.”
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia is changing the logos it uses for its athletics teams just two months after they were unveiled after criticism that a design element referred to the school’s history with slavery.
Ex-NBA Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is not on-board with the effort to ban Oscar-winning Civil War classic, Gone With the Wind. But he does want a warning label slapped on the film and all other entertainment that does not meet woke standards.
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh (D) is considering removing the Emancipation Memorial, a statue of President Abraham Lincoln and a freed slave.
Italian authorities have arrested thirteen Chinese nationals who they say were using illegal migrants in slave-like conditions for a business making medical masks.
A Michigan group that has targeted God in the public square is now seeking to tear down a monument depicting a freed black child that honors the Emancipation Proclamation.
Former Clemson Tigers and current NFL players Deshaun Watson and DeAndre Hopkins have persuaded Clemson University to rename its Calhoun Honors College, given that John C. Calhoun was a pre-Civil War slavery advocate.
“We’ve got to start teaching history properly”, said Mr Farage Friday, his latest remarks in a week where he has taken iconoclasts head-on.
Portland Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum is angered over President Donald Trump’s plans to hold a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 19th.
Ghana, considered a gateway of the brutal slave trade to the United States that began more than 400 years ago, is urging “unwanted” Americans of African heritage to resettle within its borders in the wake of the police killing of Minnesota resident George Floyd.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) referred to America’s “original sin” in the context of a discussion about police reform, following nationwide protests after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Former Clemson players DeAndre Hopkins and Deshaun Watson are leading the charge to have former South Carolina Senator and slavery proponent John C. Calhoun’s name and legacy removed from the school.
A takeaway boss jailed for enslaving white men has been ordered to pay back the £275,000 he made from his crimes.
Kent police arrested five people in connection with the alleged trafficking and exploitation of Romanian fruit pickers.
Historians were outraged by Hannah-Jones’s false claim, which the Times was forced to correct. She won the Pulitzer anyway.
Lebanese security forces arrested a man on Thursday on suspicion of putting a Nigerian domestic worker up “for sale” online, Al Jazeera reported.
Videos of seemingly hundreds of Muslim Uyghurs leaving western Xinjiang province to work in factories elsewhere indicate that China is plugging the holes in its economy caused by the Wuhan coronavirus with “slave laborers and cannon fodder,” the human rights publication Bitter Winter asserted on Wednesday.
Hollywood director Spike Lee took to Instagram to attack a group of black Donald Trump supporters, essentially comparing them to house slaves.
An activist student group at Towson University has started a petition to rename two buildings on campus that are named after prominent Maryland politcians and farmers from the 17th and 18th centuries. The students argue that the buildings should be renamed because their namesakes owned slaves.
Deciding to have children in the First World supports slavery, according to a BBC Three segment pushed on social media.
George Washington’s Mount Vernon has discontinued a magnet depicting the first president’s false teeth in light of a controversy about their origin.
Appearing Tuesday on the Fox Business Network, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) dismissed record-low black unemployment under President Donald Trump, stating black Americans “were fully employed during slavery.”
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes took the stage on Tuesday at the Department of Transportation where he recalled meeting with President Donald Trump not long after the 2016 election about the scourge of human trafficking.
Speaking Monday to CBS This Morning, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson cast doubt over the feasibility of reparations for the descendants of slaves, calling the logistics “unworkable.”
The University of Cincinnati announced this week that they will be removing Charles McMicken’s name from the college of arts and sciences. McMicken, one of the original founders of the University of Cincinnati, owned slaves during his lifetime in the first half of the 1800s.
Amidst fresh accusations of antisemitism, the far-left leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said that if elected he would force schools in the United Kingdom to teach the “historical injustices” committed by the British Empire.
If her story was fiction, no one would believe it. Harriet tells her story truthfully and tells it well.
The University of Bristol has hired its first Professor of the History of Slavery, in order to research its ties to the slave trade and whether the university should apologise for its past.
The issue of reparations is now front and center in Louisiana’s upcoming gubernatorial election in which the state’s incumbent Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards is seeking a second term in office.
Harvard University President Larry Bacow apologized recently after he faced a backlash for comparing a proposed university donor policy to slavery.
Another high level employee of the New York Times made racist, anti-semitic, and disparaging comments on social media.
Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities Dawn Butler has said British businesses “must” pay reparations, and linked U.S. President Donald Trump to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke — apparently forgetting that he endorsed her own party leader.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested Thursday that the ongoing debate over D.C.’s statehood is intricately rooted in the “history of slavery.”
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden gave a “bad answer” about the effect slavery has had on race relations, according to Indiana mayor, Pete Buttigieg.
