Commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the United Nations General Assembly passed a landmark resolution, introduced by Ghana, ...

Kenneth B Ati-John and Ndine Wa‑Chiuta respond to an article by Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama The president of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, is right to argue that recognising the transatlantic ...

The UN General Assembly has passed the resolution on transatlantic slavery despite opposition from the US and European countries. The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution recognizing the ...

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Wednesday declaring the transatlantic slave trade “the gravest crime against humanity.” The resolution calls on member nations to pursue reparatory ...

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday designated the transatlantic African slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity" despite opposition by the United States and some European countries. In a ...

Members call for reparatory justice as landmark resolution aims for ‘political recognition at the highest level’ The United Nations has voted to describe the transatlantic chattel slave trade as the ...

A ⁠United Nations resolution, proposed by Ghana, to recognise transatlantic slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations, has been adopted despite pushback from Europe ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, ...

A mother who held a woman captive as a slave inside her "squalid" home for 25 years has been sentenced to 13 years. Amanda Wixon, 56, forced the woman - now in her 40s - to shave her hair, regularly ...

Mandy Wixon has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for keeping a vulnerable woman captive in her home for 25 years Handing down his sentence, the judge tells Wixon she "cruelly and persistently held ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A vivid rumor began circulating in the United States in the middle of ...

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