LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi's first Black lawmaker of the 20th century ...

As a small child, he would sit by the side of ... “He had never owned a pair of pants or shoes until after slavery,” Robert Clark told The Associated Press in a 2018 interview.

The African diaspora’s watery cradle was an archeological blank, as though the sea had erased all trace of what the poet Robert ... of another slave ship, which had revived a small town on ...

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They work hard on a law to punish Alabamians showing kindness to the vulnerable — normal, everyday stuff in the Legislature — and inadvertently revive the Fugitive Slave Act. Wednesdays ...

LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - The number of potential modern slavery victims in Britain rose to a record last year, official statistics showed on Thursday, highlighting a growing crime that experts ...

is an issue we will take up with you." Mitchell added: "We owe it to ourselves and future generations of humanity to ensure (slavery) is accepted as a crime against humanity, and that appropriate ...

Schumer Backs Spending Bill and Lines Up Enough Democrats to Pass It Many Democrats wanted to block Republicans’ measure in defiance of President Trump, but Senator Chuck Schumer said a shutdown ...

Amid national backlash to diversity initiatives and Black history celebrations, Baylor has undertaken new research into its institutional history with slavery and is making changes to its campus.

By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul Gil Won-ok, one of the last survivors of sexual slavery for Japan’s World War II troops, who campaigned to bring international attention to the suffering of ...