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One of Britain's most progressive newspapers investigated itself and found it was financed by the slave trade
The Guardian's founder and nine of its original investors all profited from the labor of enslaved p…
Katie Hawkinson
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Benedict Cumberbatch's family could face legal pressure to pay reparations over historical links to Barbados slave trade, report says
Barbados, in the Caribbean, may seek reparations from slave owners' descendants. Benedict Cumberbat…
Joshua Zitser
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Black business owners are leading a revolution in a Virginia market haunted by its ties to the slave trade
"It's what the ancestors would want us to do," Faith Wilkerson said about her work promoting events…
Patrice J. Williams
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'The Woman King' tells the story of the Agojie. But in real life, the fierce women warriors played a controversial role in the translatlantic slave trade.
"The Woman King" takes inspiration from a group of all-women warriors. However, some critics accuse…
Yoonji Han
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Britain's only Black newspaper said it faced backlash after Prince Charles guest-edited an issue, and it's now urging the royals to apologize for the monarchy's role in the slave trade
Britain's only national Black newspaper, The Voice, appointed the Prince of Wales as a guest editor…
Mikhaila Friel
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High school students made a 'Slave Trade' Snapchat group and pretended to auction Black classmates, according to reports and officials
A high school district in Oregon is investigating one of its student's participation in a racist Sn…
Kat Tenbarge
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Trump's takeaway from the Dutch slave trade exhibit at the Museum of African American History was, 'They love me in the Netherlands'
Before Lonnie G. Bunch III became the secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, he was the founding d…
Kat Tenbarge
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California recall candidate Larry Elder says it could be argued that slave owners were owed reparations after the Civil War
Because slavery was legal at the time, Elder said that it could be argued that both Black people an…
Morgan Keith
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How farmers in New Zealand shear 25,000 sheep in 10 days
Sheep have to be sheared every six months to stay healthy. But as trade wars hit wool values, New Z…
Abby Narishkin,Steve Cameron,…
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A Mississippi middle school asked 8th graders to pretend they were slaves and write letters home to Africa
Critics said the Purvis Middle School writing assignment trivialized and misrepresented the realiti…
Ashley Collman
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Black Lives Matter protesters in the UK toppled a 125-year-old slave trader statue and sank it in a river
Cheers and applause from protestors accompanied the toppling of the controversial statue of Edward …
Shoshy Ciment
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The toppled statue of a slave trader in Bristol, England, has been replaced with a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester
Protesters pulled down a statue of Edward Colston and threw it into the river in June. Artist Marc …
Bill Bostock
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Jamaica wants UK to pay them $25 billion as financial reparation for involvement in slave trade
Speaking at a bilateral meeting on Wednesday (September 30), Simpson-Miller said: "I brought to the…
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A Republican lawmaker said that owning slaves 'doesn't make you racist' and was a 'business decision'
New Hampshire Republican state committee chairman Stephen Stepanek told HuffPost that "Representati…
Travis Clark
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A lawsuit is accusing 7 chocolate makers of complicity in child labor and trafficking in the cocoa trade
The companies are accused of having a "long history" of complicity to make cheap cocoa, according t…
Brittany Chang
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43 Slaves Work For Me
Okay, so no more hot food and video games, right? But boycotting can actually worsen the situation,…
Christina Sterbenz
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I Just Found Out 43 Slaves Work For Me
Okay, so no more hot food and video games, right? But boycotting can actually worsen the situation,…
Christina Sterbenz
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US stocks notch fresh all-time highs in short trading session as tech leads the way
"As far as the second half of 2019 is concerned, our forecast is that the S&P will slump to 2,5…
Rebecca Ungarino
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Prominent Chinese Politician Compared Hong Kong Protesters To American Slaves
Laura Cha, a nonofficial member of Hong Kong's Executive Council, spoke at a trade event in Paris o…
Amanda Macias
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The US and China just reached a trade-war truce, delaying $300 billion worth of planned tariffs
"With such a wide gap between the demands of the two countries, anyone who says they know how this …