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A judge ruled two weeks ago that a former restaurant manager in South Carolina owes $546,000 to a man he enslaved, deeming the manager guilty of “coercing an African-American man with an intellectual disability to work extensive hours at a restaurant for no pay.” The manager, 56-year-old Bobby Paul Edwards, is serving a 10-year prison sentence […]
A Louisiana lawmaker is catching heat after saying schools should be required to teach the “good” aspects of U.S. slavery. According to Forbes, GOP Rep. Ray Garofalo made the comments Tuesday while defending House Bill No. 564—a proposed measure that would prohibit K-12 schools and colleges from teaching “divisive concepts,” such as critical race theory. Garofalo, who is the chairman of […]
A Texas school district says it’s taking disciplinary action against a group of high school students who allegedly held a mock “slave auction” on Snapchat. The Aledo Independent School District confirmed the racist stunt was carried out by students from the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus. CNN obtained screenshots from the Snapchat group, reportedly titled “N***** Auction,” where students pretended […]
An adult man inexplicably shared a video of himself on TikTok getting embarrassed by a 12-year-old who confronted him for hanging a Confederate flag on his porch. The exchange, which was captured by a security camera positioned outside his home, starts with the kid walking up to the grown man on his bike, and asking him […]
Mars, Nestlé, Hershey, and other companies are all being sued for child slavery after eight young adults claim that they were used for slave labor on their cocoa plants on the Ivory Coast. According to The Guardian, the young adults are all from Mali and seek damages for “forced labor and further compensation for unjust enrichment, negligent supervision, and […]
After over 150 years, America is finally trying to correct the language in the 13th Amendment which sparked the racist prison-industrial system. The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that lawmakers created a joint resolution to remove portions of the document that allow involuntary servitude. The 13th Amendment might have ended chattel slavery, but it explicitly states that […]
Voters in Alabama have approved an amendment that will allow state officials to begin drafting a recompiled version of their constitution that eliminates racist language, AP reports. The amendment will also remove language that no longer applies, and combine elements pertaining to economic development and related counties. Since 2000, a similar measure in regards to […]
California’s governor has signed a historic reparations bill amid nationwide outcries against racial injustice. “After watching last night’s debate, this signing can’t come too soon,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday, as he signed Assembly Bill 3121 into law. The legislation makes California the first state to officially consider reparations for slavery; however, as Deadline points out, […]
Donald Trump threatened to pull federal funding from California schools, if an investigation by the US Department of Education concludes that the New York Times’ 1619 Project has been implemented into their curriculums. “Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded!” Trump tweeted Sunday in response to a tweet about […]
Akon caught heat this week after he was asked about the way slavery is viewed in Senegal, the West African country where he spent most of his childhood. The 47-year-old artist claimed Senegalese no longer think about slavery because they have “overcome” its horrors, unlike African Americans. “In Senegal, we’ve kind of overcome the thought of slavery, […]
