Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
LUBUMBASHI is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Many people might not have heard of it, but Lubumbashi and its surrounding region have ...
A new report from the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab and GoodWeave International highlights the risk of modern slavery ...
In 1888, struck by the number of orphans she was continuing to find around Atlanta, she founded the Carrie Steele Orphans Home.
The conflict over photos of nude children at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth shows how coarse our culture has become, and ...
On Oct. 7, 1885, a 16-year-old German barber named Friedrich boarded a ship for New York. Fleeing the military service then ...
Whether by starvation, disease, forced labor or street executions, the Nazi plan was to exterminate the Jews. All of them. As a child and grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I was in awe of their ...
The spotlight is firmly on Sajda Pathan, whose own life story mirrors the resilience portrayed in the film. Rescued from child labor in Delhi by the Salaam Baalak Trust, Sajda has overcome incredible ...
Pablo Alvarado is the co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, better known as NDLON. The 58-year-old El Salvador native is a legend in the local immigrant rights ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage.