South Africa still has a long way to go in respecting human rights. This is confirmed by protest marches across the country ...

The history of the Coloureds is coupled with European colonialism, indigenous Khoisan and Malay slave influences. This mixed ethnicity forged a new identity and cultural practices that are ...

and who display similar social challenges centuries after the abolition of slavery. Parallels may also be drawn between Native American communities and the Khoisan both of whom suffered land ...

A fate that was even worse then staying in her homeland, where they were used almost as slaves in the settlements of the Europeans. Her culture ended up dwindling in its numbers and now only a few ...

So in 2016, when Maddox learned not only that the Catholic church had held slaves, but that her ancestors had been among them, it prompted a crisis of faith. To see her great-great-grandfather ...

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 ...

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another. But when the kindness and ...

This was the slave ship Camargo, which carried five hundred souls across the Atlantic before it burned. It was the sixth of November, and I was diving with a group of maritime archeologists in ...

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