Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into ...

The debate on reparations needs to address the legacy of colonialism and slavery today, from racism to the economic disparities between Africa and wealthy Western nations, said ECOSOCC ...

How will a recent decision to classify slavery, deportation and colonization as crimes against humanity and acts of genocide ...

The African Union (AU) has officially classified slavery, colonization, and forced deportation as crimes against humanity and ...

John Conyers—the longest-serving African-American member of Congress in history—first introduced the “Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for the African-Americans Act,” or United ...

Even though Africa is often told to move on, the legacy of colonialism continues to shape its struggles of external debt ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. — We were standing in front of the First African Baptist Church in Savannah, a registered historic landmark. It’s home to the oldest continuous Black congregation in the nation ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced them into slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line ...

African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can expect to be stonewalled by former colonial powers, most of which have ruled ...