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Racism is such a touchy topic that many US educators avoid it – we are college professors who tackled that challenge head on

It is not easy to teach about race in today’s political and social climate.

The Conversation

California voters reject measure to ban forced prison labor

Prop 6, which would have banned involuntary servitude in prisons, fails in blow to criminal justice reform advocates

The Guardian - US

Ta-Nehisi Coates describes what he saw in Palestine as ‘apartheid’, resembling America’s segregated Jim Crow South

In May 2023, renowned Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spent ten days in the West Bank and Israel, where he spent half his time with Breaking the Silence, a group of former Israeli soldiers who now oppose the occupation.

The Conversation

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California voters reject measure that would have banned forced prison labor

California has rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor

The Independent UK

Anti-slavery tsar welcomed but civil groups want teeth

Former Labor senator Chris Evans has been appointed as the inaugural anti-slavery commissioner but civil groups want him properly funded and given real power.

AAP

Former Labor senator to be Australia’s first anti-slavery commissioner

With an estimated 41,000 people living in modern slavery in Australia, Chris Evans’ role to address exploitative practices such as forced marriage and deceptive recruiting

The Guardian - AU

How Black liberals fought a "dark age"

Scholar Keidrick Roy on the lessons of 19th-century Black thinkers who resisted racist notions of "liberty"

Salon

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'You've Been Selected To Be A Slave' Texts Target Black Americans: FBI Launches Investigation

The FBI is investigating a disturbing series of anonymous text messages targeting Black Americans across multiple states, threatening them with references to slavery and plantations, sparking widespread fear and outrage.

International Business Times UK

At an art festival in Dakar, artists from both sides of the Atlantic examine the legacy of slavery

The Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, or Dak’Art, has opened in the Senegalese capital

The Independent UK

Part VI: Slavery and the Reconstruction Amendments

An Introduction To Constitutional Law Video Library: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), The Slaughter-House Cases (1873), Bradwell v. Illinois (1873), U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876), Strauder v. West Virginia (1880), The Civil Rights Case (1883), Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886), Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Reason

Racist Text Messages Target Black Americans Across Multiple States

Racist text messages referencing slavery target Black individuals nationwide, prompting investigations and condemnation from civil rights organizations.

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Mass racist text messages sent to Black people across America spark investigations

The messages, sent anonymously, were reported in several states, including New York, Alabama, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee

The Independent UK

Racist text messages referencing slavery raise alarms in multiple states and prompt investigations

Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, prompting inquiries by the FBI and other agencies

The Independent UK

Number of suspected modern slavery victims surges to record high

The number of suspected victims of modern slavery referred for help is up 15 per cent year-on-year

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Evening Standard

Record high number of potential victims of modern slavery

The previous quarterly record was 4,742 referrals between January and March 2023.

The Guardian - UK

Boots says it will ‘draw lessons’ from research into links to slavery

Report looked into donations to Nottingham universities by Jesse Boot, who expanded pharmacy chain

Salon

Super-rich making the Hitler mistake?

Germany's business elite thought they could control the demagogue. Steve Schwarzman and Peter Thiel think that now

The Guardian - UK

It’s time for Britain to acknowledge the need for slavery reparations

Letters: Alan Tanner suggests a way forward in terms of compensation figures. Plus letters from Jocelyn Robson, Zaki Cooper and Terry Fulton

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The Independent UK

Britain's foreign secretary says slavery reparations not about cash transfer

Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy says reparations for the U.K.’s role in the slave trade are not about the “transfer of cash” and reiterated his country’s position that leans toward focusing on the future

Evening Standard

Slavery reparations need to be about future, not just cash, says Lammy

The Foreign Secretary is in Africa as he pursues a ‘fresh approach’ to partnerships across the continent.

The Guardian - UK

Project reveals UK sites where black Americans fought to end slavery

Missing Pieces Project maps buildings in 189 locations where African American abolitionists spoke against slavery

The Independent UK

Inside a 1760 schoolhouse for Black children is a complicated history of slavery and resilience

A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children

International Business Times

UK Treads Fine Line On Slavery Legacy, While Ruling Out Reparations

Commonwealth countries want talks on slavery reparations but the United Kingdom -- engaged in soul-searching over its former empire for several years now -- is not open to financial compensation, officials and analysts say.

The Guardian - UK

Here’s what Keir Starmer gets wrong about reparations: we’ve made them before, but now we have to do it right

The call for justice is not going away. Rather than ignore it, Labour should be entering the conversation – and shaping it, says academic Kojo Koram

The Guardian - UK

Should Britain pay for the horror of slavery?

Letters: Readers respond to Keir Starmer saying Britain will not participate in any slavery reparations

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