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A basic income program funded by descendants of slave owners provides $1,000 a month as a form of reparations
The descendants of slave owners are funding a basic income program in Louisiana that they view as a…
Katie Balevic
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Princess Leia's slave costume, Iron Man's helmet & more to go under the hammer
Los Angeles, Aug 29 (IANS) Over 1400 iconic Hollywood props, including several from MCU, 'Star War…
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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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San Fran tech founder is accused of forcing his assistant into a 'slave contract' that called him 'Master' before trafficking her for sex around the world
The lawsuit says CEO Christian Lanng made the woman sign the "shocking and repulsive" sex slave con…
Natalie Musumeci
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Trump could be charged with breaking a law that was passed to stop the KKK from terrorizing former slaves
The special counsel Jack Smith's office laid out three laws Trump could be prosecuted over in conne…
Sonam Sheth
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Rudy Farias mystery: mom made the boy a 'slave' and forced him to sleep with her, activist says
Houston activist Quanell X said that missing man Rudy Farias detailed years of abuse and druggings …
Laura Italiano,Jack Newsham
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Donald Trump is the only living US president whose ancestors didn't own slaves, report says
Even Barack Obama is the descendant of slaveholders on his mother's side. But Trump's ancestors arr…
Bryan Metzger
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Pompeii find reveals the secrets of life as a slave in Ancient Rome, frozen in time for almost 2,000 years by volcanic eruption
Archaeologists discovered a small bedroom used by slaves in a dig near the Roman city of Pompeii, I…
Rebecca Rommen
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Knives are out for the congressman long held to be tapped as DeSantis's successor in Florida after he questioned state teaching standards about slaves learning skills they could 'benefit' from
Florida middle schoolers will be taught that some Black "slaves developed skills" they could benefi…
Madison Hall
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Slave codes used to dictate what enslaved people could or couldn't wear. Newly freed Black Americans shed their old clothes as a symbol of freedom.
During the first Juneteenth, Black Americans ceremoniously cast off their clothes and instead donne…
Yoonji Han
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Russian who served in Ukraine says female medics from her unit were used as sex slaves for high-ranking officers
The Russian service member said female medics were made into "field wives" who had to cook and clea…
Sinéad Baker
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Aristocratic British family whose ancestors owned 1,000 slaves to apologize and pay $120,000 to reparations fund
The Trevelyan family, whose ancestors owned six sugar plantations on the Caribbean island of Grenad…
Bethany Dawson
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The US Navy is changing the name of a warship to honor a former slave who escaped to freedom on a stolen Confederate ship
The missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville, originally named after a major Confederate victory, will …
Jake Epstein
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Inmates across Alabama's notoriously macabre prisons are on strike: 'I'm just a slave'
Thousands of Alabama inmates are participating in a labor strike to draw attention to the cruel con…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Boxing great Mike Tyson compared streaming giant Hulu to a 'slave master'
Mike Tyson has had choice words about Hulu before, and he did not pull his punches when talking abo…
Alan Dawson
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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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Brittney Griner is at Russia's 'harshest' prison colony known for 'slave-like conditions' and 'daily torture,' a former inmate says
A Russian musician who served a two-year sentence at a Russian penal colony in Mordovia told MSNBC …
Meredith Cash
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How one nonprofit is getting the world's biggest retail brands to improve human rights in countries producing raw materials
The Responsible Sourcing Network brought brands like Adidas and Gap on board to boycott cotton harv…
Elle Hardy
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Black TikToker calls out Airbnb hosts for renting out former slave cabins as luxury accommodation
A former slave cabin on a Mississippi plantation was listed on Airbnb. Then, Black TikToker @Lawyer…
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…