Slavery

What caused the Civil War? Slavery doesn't immediately come to mind. according to Nikki Haley. The Republican presidential candidate and former South Carolina Governor failed to mention it when questioned at a town hall event in Berlin, New Hampshire on...

Solid majorities oppose payments to descendants of enslaved persons

Carlo Vecce makes the disputed claim in a fictionalized form, the novel" Il sorriso di Caterina"

Juneteenth marks the anniversary of the announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865 that put an end to slavery in Texas. It has been celebrated annually on June 19 in various parts...

New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones, best known for the 1619 Project, which frames slavery as one of the core elements of the history of the United States, addressed the UN General Assembly during a commemoration of the transatlantic slave trade on Tuesday. She...

Approximately 80 million children from 5 to 7 years old are subjected to modern-day slavery today, according to UNICEF and ILO’s findings from June. Moreover, experts claim that one in every 130 women and girls are victims of forced labor,...

Today being Columbus Day, I would like to express my personal opinion on this commemoration. Despite the false and malignant attributes many people attach to Christopher Columbus today--many even contemptuously distancing themselves from him-- only Italian Americans still admire and...

In Italiano It’s almost like a Pirandello play: loves and hatreds, admiration and disdain for a similar situation, but seen from different points of view, simply to remind us that absolute truth does not exist. And this very sick America,...