Slavery

Doha clears UK activist Andy Hall of defamation over migrant rights case

A Doha court overturned the 2022 defamation conviction of British activist Andy Hall, clearing him of charges linked to his advocacy for migrant workers’ rights ahead of the 2022 World Cup.

Activist Andy Hall attends a meeting at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office to discuss his detainment in Qatar, July 2025.
 RUSSIA’S PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un attend a state reception in Pyongyang, earlier this year.

North Koreans sent to Russia working 'like slaves' - report

Several African leaders, including Liberian President Joseph Boakai, sit with US President Donald Trump on July 9, 2025.

Trump asks Liberian president where he learned English, his country's official language

Joshlin Smith's mother, Kelly, and co-accused sit during court trial in Saldanha Bay, South Africa, May 2, 2025

Mother convicted for trafficking 6-year-old daughter to traditional healer for 'eyes and skin'


Statue of Thomas Jefferson to be removed from New York City Hall

The statue is 188-years old and about 7-feet tall and efforts for it to be removed reignited due to protests for racial justice throughout the United States last year.

TOURISTS STROLL around the memorial to former US president Thomas Jefferson in Washington.

Israel is an essential ally to Africa - opinion

Since Israel was revived as a modern Jewish state in 1948, it has provided essential aid to countries in Africa.

The emblem of the African Union.

Biden signs Juneteenth bill, creating holiday marking US slavery's end

Biden said the day is a reminder of the "terrible toll that slavery took on the country and continues to take."

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden talks about the status of coronavirus vaccinations at the White House on Tuesday.

Family home of Harriet Tubman believed to be found in eastern Maryland

Archaeologists found a coin dated from 1808 on the Maryland Eastern Shore that portrays a woman with her hair blowing in the wind, wearing a hat that reads "Liberty."


A monument to a Confederate governor who loved Jews is coming down

Why did he admire Jews while considering Black people subhuman, activists are asking? And why did some in the Jewish community lavish him with praise?

The Zebulon Baird Vance Monument is a spot where groups from evangelicals to Black Lives Matter protesters go to be heard.

Could the Bible be cancel culture's next victim? - opinion

The terror of ‘woke’ cancel culture knows no bounds

First edition of King James Bible

Parashat Va'era: Despair and destinations

The news of liberation comes to the slaves of Israel – but they are unable to hear it.

‘MOSES WITH the Ten Commandments,’ Philippe de Champaigne, 1648: Why not read them every day?

A ‘High Holiday Prayer’ to the Czar

After he freed the serfs, Alexander II was virtually deified by one top Jewish newspaper.

The Jewish market in Minsk, home to one of the largest Jewish populations in the Pale of Settlement. From the Folklore Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The lunatic fringe has taken hold Congress - opinion

You have to wonder what side some of these guys would have been on in 1861.

REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (R-Texas) speaks during a US House Judiciary Committee meeting in Washington, DC, last month.

Republican Senator Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil'

“As the Founding Fathers said, [slavery] was the necessary evil upon which the union was built."

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 5, 2020