Proposition 6 would end mandatory work assignments in California prisons, a practice allowed under the state Constitution as a punishment for crime. Supporters say forced labor in prison is a form of ...

Emancipation Day, a holiday marking the anniversary of an act of Congress that provided for the emancipation of people held as slaves in the District of Columbia, will be observed Friday, April 15, ...

New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones claimed on Sunday that the North did not actually fight to end slavery during the Civil War. On Saturday night, Hannah-Jones tweeted out a quote from her ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Looking at the Nashville area home from the outside it's just another beautiful home, but what happens inside is what makes it truly unique. “We are the single point of ...

Last year, voters in Vermont, Oregon, Tennessee and Alabama approved historic ballot measures that removed slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime from their state constitutions, ...

Slavery – turning human beings into property used up for profit – is a heinous offense repugnant to all faith communities. This was captured beautifully in the Joint Declaration of Religious Leaders, ...

A Fox News contributor is getting a history lesson via social media. Katie Pavlich is under fire for claiming this week America was “the first country” to end slavery “within 150 years.” The U.S. was ...

Many mistakenly cite “Juneteenth,” on June 19, 1865, as slavery’s official end, succumbing to the incorrect narrative reinforced by leftists in recent years. Despite claims to the contrary, slavery ...

Rep. Justin Lafferty, R-Knoxville, watches the tally board during a vote in the House of Representatives Tuesday, May 4, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. Lafferty falsely declared that an 18th century policy ...

More than 40 million people have been estimated to be captive in modern slavery, which includes forced labor and forced marriage NEW YORK, July 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ten thousand people ...

Michigan historians and local scholars say the Mitten State played an oversized role in ending the enslavement of African Americans and one of the most painful and horrific periods in history.

A confederate flag carried into the temple of democracy in 2021 is a searing reminder that Americans all still bear the heavy legacy of slavery – in politics, in the economy, in the inequities of the ...