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Friday essay: I work as a sensitivity reader – and racism is harder to spot than you’d think

If I asked you to picture a racist, I know exactly what you’d envision. A white hood, or someone screaming slurs, or a person praising slavery.

The Conversation

‘Blood timber’: western firms fuel conflict and ‘slavery’ in Colombia

Trade in uncertified hardwood illegally logged in Chocó rainforest and imported by US and Europe is financing paramilitaries, says Environmental Investigation Agency

The Guardian - UK

Love endures all, including slavery and the pandemic. I wanted to show how

In early 2020, separated from my family and friends during the pandemic, I made up my mind to write a love story

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This Instagram Account Educates People By Explaining The Best History Memes Out There (23 Pics)

If history textbooks were more like this Instagram account, maybe more kids would open them. Or at least try to.

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More women than men in contacts to anti-slavery charity helpline for first time

The rise is thought to be partly down to an increase in exploitation of migrant women in the care sector, Unseen said.

The Independent UK

Black style and resistance: The Met Gala, dandyism and blackface in Canada

In her groundbreaking book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, 1812-1897, Cheryl Thompson, professor of performance at Toronto Metropolitan University, maps the transnational flow of minstrel culture and racial ideologies, revealing how blackface performance — and the racism it reflects — was not strictly an American…

The Conversation

Labour hire companies exploiting slavery rule gaps

Australian workers in "modern slavery" conditions are being exploited by their employers, left in debt and often assaulted, an inquiry has been told.

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‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’

Brazil has been the world’s leading coffee producer due to the forced labour of enslaved Africans and Afro-Brazilians

The Guardian - US

Trump cuts federal grants to plantation museum focused on reality of slavery

Whitney Plantation has two grants for Black history and culture terminated in ‘furtherance of president’s agenda’

The Guardian - US

Hurricane-hit Grenadians see climate change and reparations as one struggle

Island country deals with drought and hurricane damage as it pushes for reparations from countries that benefited from slavery

The Guardian - US

Caught on camera: French cinema finally reckons with its colonial past

For years, French cinema has ignored stories that dealt with France’s colonial history, but something is now changing.

Euronews

200 years ago, France extorted Haiti in one of history’s greatest heists – and Haitians want reparations

In 2002, Haiti’s former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide argued that France should pay his country $US21 billion.

The Conversation

What Is Opus Dei and Why Are 43 Argentinian Women Suing The Secretive Catholic Group

Opus Dei, an ultra religious Catholic institution, is being accused of using false promises of a better life to coerce 43 children into slavery and seclusion.

International Business Times UK

Trafficking victims rejecting UK government support because they fear being deported

Nearly 6,000 victims of modern slavery chose not to be referred for help last year, new data shows

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Israelis mark another Passover hoping for Gaza captives to be freed

Relatives of hostages in Gaza say they feel the absence of their loved ones acutely during Passover, which commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their liberation from slavery

The Guardian - UK

Police freeze £1m as high street raids find cannabis farms and evidence of slavery

Thirty-five arrests after hundreds of barbershops and other businesses raided in UK money-laundering investigation

Evening Standard

Hundreds of barbershops targeted by police in crackdown on money laundering and modern slavery

Ten shops were shut down, and further closures are expected after police forces across the country visited 265 cash-focused businesses

AAP

Juror brings knife into court in slavery trial

A juror bringing a knife to court and being discharged for misconduct was only the beginning of the troubles for a slavery trial in Sydney.

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River Thames pier renamed by Uber after campaign over slavery link

Uber Boats have announced it has been renamed St Mary’s Wandsworth

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US blocks sea salt imports from South Korean salt farm over forced labor concerns

The United States has blocked imports of sea salt products from a major South Korean salt farm accused of using slave labor, becoming the first trade partner to take punitive action against a decadeslong problem on salt farms in remote islands off South Korea’s southwest coast

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Abolition wasn’t fueled by just moral or economic concerns – the booming whaling industry also helped sink slavery

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the puzzle?

The Independent UK

Maryland lawmakers plan to study reparations for slavery

Maryland lawmakers have approved a measure to create a commission to study and recommend potential benefits as reparations for slavery and lingering impacts of racial discrimination in the state

The Guardian - UK

Secrets of Success: the church that served a plantation remains a monument of resistance

Amid the site in rural Jamaica that once belonged to a Guardian financier may lie a treasure trove of artefacts that tell the story of Britain’s history of colonisation and enslavement

The Guardian - US

Trump will not stop until every American relic reflects his imaginary world view

The US president’s attack on the Smithsonian isn’t about truth. It’s about erasure, and ‘erasure is violence’

The Conversation

Land reparations are possible − and over 225 US communities are already working to make amends for slavery and colonization

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of redistributing land to redress the nation’s legacies of slavery.

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