Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laws enacted during the U.S. slavery era are still being used by lawyers and judges in today's courtrooms. Getty Images As the ...

Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2599, forcing large corporations in California to disclose historical ties to slavery in a ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law requiring large companies to disclose slavery-era transactions dating back to 1849.

Gavin Newsom signed AB 2599. It requires companies over $100 million in annual worldwide receipts to report slavery ties after lawmakers fund it. Read on REVOLT.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced them into slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line ...

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Most people think slavery is a practice that ended with abolition laws. Yet, as Jasmin Gallardo shares, abolition laws focused on ending legal ownership, not on dismantling the economic structures ...

Government bills can be debated at will. Member's bills rely on luck. The Modern Slavery Bill might have been adopted as a government bill, but an apparent ACT-shaped roadblock was in the way. The ...

Human trafficking and slavery, particularly of children, has been an intractable global problem that defies an easy government solution, especially at the state and local levels. But California has ...

As the story of Juneteenth is told by modern-day historians, enslaved Black people were freed by laws, not combat. Union Gen. Gordon Granger said as much when he read General Order No. 3 in Galveston, ...