Tag: human trafficking
Fundraiser tops $300K for Teen Sentenced for Killing her Rapist
By Stacy M. Brown, Senior National Correspondent, NNPA Newswire
Pieper Lewis had never known freedom and had never enjoyed the support and guidance necessary for...
Slavery and war are tightly connected – but we had no idea just how...
By Monti Datta,University of Richmond; Angharad Smith, United Nations University, and Kevin Bales, University of Nottingham
Some 40 million people are enslaved around the world...
The Lookout: Four California Criminal Justice Reform Laws That Took Effect This Year
By Aldon Thomas Stiles, California Black Media
Two weeks ago, President Joe Biden signed a federal policing accountability executive order based on the George Floyd...
White House Announces the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Globally, an estimated 25 million people are subjected to human trafficking and forced labor, which is...
In R. Kelly Verdict, Black Women See Long-Overdue Justice
By Deepti Hajela, Associated Press
For years, decades even, allegations swirled that R&B superstar R. Kelly was abusing young women and girls, with seeming impunity.
They...