ROME (AP) — Italy’s tax police said Saturday they had freed 33 Indian farm workers from “slave-like working conditions” in the northern province of Verona, while...
DALLAS — Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day when more than 250,000 enslaved people in Texas were told they were free. It came two and a...
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KGO) — On Wednesday, members of the California Legislative Black Caucus announced a package of reparations bills in a first effort to repair Black...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing escalating heat from black Republicans upset over the state’s new academic curriculum that features lessons on how “enslaved people benefited...
Some of the companies that formed what is now Citigroup likely benefitted financially from slavery in the 1800’s, the financial giant acknowledged Thursday, an admission that...
A member of San Francisco’s slavery reparations committee blasted straight white men as a “danger to society” — and claimed “white supremacy is ingrained in the...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch King Willem-Alexander will deliver a speech Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of the country abolishing slavery, amid speculation that he could offer...
FRANKFORT, Ky (LEX 18) — On Monday, Governor Andy Beshear signed a proclamation that declared June 19, 2023 as Juneteenth National Freedom Day in Kentucky. J....
DETROIT (WXYZ) — June 19 is a day marking the end of slavery in the United States, and although the Juneteenth holiday has been celebrated for...
