Archaeologists have unearthed a prison in ancient Pompeii that shows the ‘most shocking side of ancient slavery.’ The ruins of an ash-covered stone structure found at the Italian site were once a bakery where humans and animals were forced to grind grain for bread. Animals walked in circles for hours blindfolded, […]
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By City & Finance Reporter Updated: 21:57 BST, 26 October 2023 Boohoo is facing a £100m lawsuit from some investors amid allegations of modern slavery. The fashion retailer is being targeted by City lawyers looking for compensation for shareholders who suffered heavy losses following claims of forced labour in Boohoo’s […]
Brazilian prosecutors have launched a civil investigation into one of the country’s largest banks’ historical links to slavery, in an unprecedented move to hold Brazilian institutions to account for their role in the enslavement of millions of Africans. Banco do Brasil was notified this week of the public inquiry seeking […]
A Colorado schoolboy has been kicked out of class for having a Gadsden Flag patch on his backpack – despite the governor calling it a ‘proud symbol of the American revolution’. Footage shows Jaiden, 12, and his mother talking to an administrator from The Vanguard School who claimed that the […]
CNN — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina pushed back Thursday against Republican rival Ron DeSantis over his state’s new Black history curriculum, which says middle school students should be taught that enslaved people learned some skills they later used to their benefit. Florida’s Board of Education approved new standards […]
ANKENY, Iowa — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only Black Republican in the Senate, rebuked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday for new public school standards that teach that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills. “As a country founded upon freedom, the […]
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., on Wednesday called on the state Education Department to “correct” its new standards for teaching Black history after it suggested that slaves benefited from skills used in forced labor. “The new African-American standards in FL are good, robust, & accurate,” Donalds tweeted. “That being said, the […]
Harris keeps up attacks on DeSantis-backed Florida curriculum on slavery In a ceremony to designate new national monuments related to the murder of Emmett Till, Kamala Harris made a veiled attack on a new curriculum in Florida backed by Republican governor Ron DeSantis that contends some Black people benefited from […]