Saying it is well past time for Kentucky to remove a slavery exception from its constitution, state Rep. George A. Brown, Jr.

Under Section 25 of the state’s constitution, slavery and involuntary servitude are outlawed “except as a punishment for ...

State Representative George Brown is proposing for Kentucky to remove a slavery exception from its constitution through House ...

On a cold December morning in 1931, a short, elderly Black woman set out on a 24km (15-mile) walk from her homestead in Alabama ... was born in the house Matilda resided in, and her funeral ...

One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...

but the U.S. House of Representatives has never voted on it. In recent year, eight states have changed their constitutions to outlaw slavery and involuntary servitude: Colorado (2018), Utah and ...

Although “I Am Nobody’s Slave” takes the form of a memoir, Minnesota native Lee Hawkins’ book becomes something bigger: an ...

“They took him for no reason,” Alyeean, 60, told Al Jazeera over the phone ... Three years later, Israel raided homes and rearrested dozens of Palestinians who had been released in the ...

CAIRO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani ... the remainder of his sentence under house arrest, the prisons service said ...

A proposal to give prosecutors the option of seeking the death penalty in child rape cases cleared a state House committee in ...