"What's in a name?" For the state of Rhode Island, these are years of problems due to the fact that its official name is associated with the times of slavery in the United States, writes the New York Post. Changes are happening in the smallest US state: on Monday, 22...
A white-skinned cafe manager in South Carolina was sentenced to 10 years in prison for enslaving a dark-skinned worker with mental disabilities. For five years, the convict forced the victim to work more than 100 hours a week for free, while often beating him with a belt, writes ...
Residents of Texas Mohamed Tour and Denis Cross-Tour were sentenced to seven years in prison and almost $ 300 thousand in fines for keeping a child from Guinea in domestic slavery for 16 years. On April 22, they wrote about this on the website of the US Department of Justice. ...
A Williamson County, Tennessee school has apologized after teachers asked students to imagine their families holding slaves and come up with a “wait list” for those slaves. The handwritten assignment, which addressed issues of slavery, immigration and child labor, was given by teachers to 27...
In Lansing, Michigan, parents abused their children by locking their five children in a 'dungeon' without food, toilet or light for at least six years, police said. Jenier Conde, 32, and Sara Conde, 28, often locked their children in the bedroom ...
A California resident held two people in slavery for five years, and then hid one of the victims from agents to interfere with the investigation. Firdosh Sheikh, 58, from Elk Grove, California, was charged with two counts of forced labor, and two counts of false ...
American rapper Kanye West said that the enslavement of blacks, which continued in North America for several centuries, can be regarded as the personal choice of slaves, writes BBC. “When you hear about slavery that lasted 400 years... 400 years? Sounds like a choice...
In Southlake, Texas, a married couple, Mohamed Touré, son of the first President of Guinea, Ahmed Sekou Touré, and his wife Denis Florence Cross-Touré are accused of having held captive and forced to work for 16 years a young girl from West Africa. ...
Online retailer Amazon has pulled children's clothing with the slogan “Slavery gets shit done” from sale after criticism from shoppers and anti-slavery groups. The slogan can be translated as “Slavery is over,” although the original sounds more informal, since it is a dysphemism of the expression...
As part of the annual Operation Cross Country XI, FBI officers rescued 84 children from being trafficked and arrested 120 traffickers. The operation lasted 4 days. As USA Today writes, on October 13, FBI officers in Denver, Colorado rescued a three-month-old girl ...