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Judge Blocks National Parks From Removing ‘Negative’ Signs and Depictions of Slavery
The ruling accused the Trump administration of engaging in censorship by taking down materials at parks across the country.…
Judge orders Trump administration to reinstall slavery and climate change exhibits
A Biden-appointed judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstall scrapped exhibits about slavery and climate change that had been removed from parks and monuments across the c…
Brianna Turner says WNBA should not wear ‘USA 250’ patches due to history of slavery: ‘Be so serious’
Aces forward Brianna Turner, the Players Association treasurer, balked at the idea that WNBA All-Stars should wear the “USA 250” patch on their jerseys that other professional spor…
'ISIS bride' charged with slavery poses risk if granted bail, court hears
Zeinab Ahmad, who recently returned to Australia, is seeking bail after she was charged with slavery offences after allegedly crossing into Syria with her family in 2015.…
Was Lincoln More Radical Than We Remember?
Damon Root discusses the path to emancipation, the struggle to secure freedom after the Civil War, and the constitutional changes that remade America.…
Administration Argues for Power Over Philadelphia Slavery Memorial
The Side That Won the Civil War is Now Banning Books About Why the Civil War Was Fought
In the days before the Civil War, the South worked hard to censor any literature that cast slavery in a negative light. Officials in Charleston, S.C. went through mailbags for abol…
Appeals court questions Philadelphia’s authority to force the federal government to keep slavery exhibits
A federal appeals court sharply questioned lawyers for the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday over their lawsuit seeking to restore a slavery exhibit to the President’s House site in …
The Church ended slavery. So why is Leo XIV apologizing?
The new encyclical Magnifica Humanitas contains an apology for the Church's 'delays' regarding slavery. But is this just?…
Chicago Mayor Johnson hopes to enlist pope in reparations fight after he apologized for 'scourge of slavery'
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to ask Pope Leo XIV to use his pulpit to support reparations as part of his Repair Chicago initiative addressing historical harms.…
What’s next after scrapping the ‘Black Code’ in France?
French MPs vote to repeal law that governed slavery in colonies.…
France’s parliament votes to repeal slavery-era Black Code, with tears and history in the chamber - AP News
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Ona Judge Escaped From Slavery While George Washington Was Busy Eating Dinner Inside. Now, a New Mural Honors Her Legacy
The artwork in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, shows Judge arriving in the city after her journey from Philadelphia in May 1796. She remained a free woman until her death in 1848…
French Parliament votes to repeal slavery-era Black Code that classified humans as property
The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing the Code Noir, or Black Code, the 1685 decree King Louis XIV signed to govern slaves across…
Ghana welcomes Pope's apology over Catholic Church's role in slavery
The West African nation was one of the main gateways for the transatlantic slave trade.…
Pope Apologizes for Church’s Support of Slavery
Well, isn't this interesting? Over there at Mediaite is this headline: “Pope Leo Makes Historic Public Apology for Vatican’s Complicity in Slavery,” but silence on reparations. Th…
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery - AP News
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican’s role in legitimizing slavery AP News…
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimising slavery
Pope Leo XIV issues historic apology for the Holy See's role in legitimising slavery, acknowledging centuries of complicity and harm.…
Pope apologizes for transatlantic slavery, urges AI regulation - Reuters
Pope apologizes for transatlantic slavery, urges AI regulation Reuters…
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Vatican's role in legitimizing slavery
Pope Leo apologizes for Church's historic role in slavery
The remarks mark the most explicit papal admission to date of institutional responsibility, going beyond Pope Francis's condemnation of modern-day slavery.…
Pope Leo reaffirms right to life, condemns slavery, transhumanism in first encyclical
Critics of Pope Leo's document will undoubtedly highlight such concepts as the Church as a 'listener' rather than 'Mother and Teacher.'…
Pope Leo apologizes for Catholic Church’s legitimizing of slavery: ‘Wound in Christian memory’
Pope Leo XIV apologized on Monday for the Catholic Church’s legitimization of slavey, saying the delay in denouncing the practice was a “wound in Christian memory.” Leo, the first …
Pope Leo denounces ‘culture of power’ driving rise of AI
Pontiff calls for ‘most rigorous’ ethical constraints on tech and apologises for church’s delay in condemning slavery…
In the ~43,000-word text, the Pope urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems and decried "new forms of slavery" of people tending AI systems (Joshua McElwee/Reuters)
Joshua McElwee / Reuters : In the ~43,000-word text, the Pope urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems and decried “new forms of slavery” of people tending AI s…
What was the timeline of slavery decline in Europe Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages?
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery
Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery…
Pope Leo urges world to ‘slow down’ on AI in fervent first manifesto
He cites “new forms of slavery”, as he seeks to “disarm” AI and make it “human friendly”. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.…
What jewelry did men wear in 1st century B.C. of Ancient Rome? Did freedmen ever wear anything like bracelets to cover up former scars of slavery? Did this differ in Roman controlled territories such as Greece?
‘Exploitation isn’t sustainable’: $400 trillion investor coalition demands overhaul of modern slavery laws
A powerful coalition has stepped up pressure on the government to introduce tougher laws, three years after a review found Australia’s legal framework had failed to create meaningf…
What effects did the debate on slavery have on the U.S. Democratic party in the mid-nineteenth century?
Vellore man arrested in cyber slavery trafficking case linked to Cambodia
Vellore man arrested for facilitating cyber slavery trafficking linked to Cambodian scam, recruiting victims for online fraud operations.…
Macron opens the door to 'reparations' for slavery
With one year left in his term, the French president launched a new chapter in France's reckoning with its past by addressing, for the first time, the issue of 'reparations' linked…
Macron backs symbolic repeal of France's slavery laws, warns against 'false promises' on reparations
Macron backs repeal of France's colonial-era slavery decrees amid reparations debate
French President Emmanuel Macron endorsed the symbolic repeal of centuries-old royal decrees governing slavery in France's former colonies, while acknowledging growing demands for …
Macron under pressure over reparatory justice for France’s role in slave trade
Demands grow for launch of formal discussion process on how country should address legacies of enslavement Emmanuel Macron is under pressure to open discussions on reparatory justi…
France marks 25 years since landmark slavery law
Slavery Within Species
Franklin Pierce by David W. Blight
Misreading the moral direction of the nation can turn political caution into historical catastrophe…
Reimagining George Washington’s Portrait
A new exhibition makes the Founding Father seem like anything but a saint. That’s a good thing.…
‘Strawberries’ Director on Calling Out Modern-Day Slavery, Prostitution in Her Cannes Homage to Moroccan Fruit Pickers in Spain
"It's a sad form of new colonialism," says auteur Laïla Marrakchi about the social and #MeToo issues she explores in her Un Certain Regard film. "I want to show these women who are…
CMV: You can support reparations for slavery AND initiatives that will help poor and middle class people in general
TIL the one scene that Steven Spielberg directed that made him cry on set was in Lincoln (2012); it's a four-minute speech given by Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln trying to explain to his cabinet the urgency of passing the 13th Amendment (which abolished slavery) into Constitutional law.
NIA chargesheets ‘mastermind,’ four others in Cambodia-linked ‘cyber slavery’ case
The National Investigation Agency has filed a charge sheet against five persons, including absconding “mastermind” Anand Kumar Singh, in a case of human trafficking and “cyber slav…
NIA files chargesheet against five in Cambodia cyber slavery, trafficking case
NIA files chargesheet against five accused in Cambodia-linked cyber slavery and human trafficking case involving Indian youth lured with fake job offers abroad. | India News…