Abdel Nasser was given his first slave, a cherubic 5-year-old named Yebawwa, in 1969. According to a tradition among so-called white Moors in Mauritania, a boy asks for a coveted object at the moment ...

A BOOK WORTH TEACHING: It says racism and caste are not synonymous, but certainly linked. Rep. Mark Lowery, the Maumelle Republican, hasn’t given up his fight to be sure Arkansas school children ...

The history of slavery is as old as human civilisation. One explanation was that slaves became necessary when there was an abundance of land, but lack of labour. It was profitable for landlords to use ...

The Art of Living founder has put caste reconciliation on his public agenda. He organised the "Truth and Reconciliation" ...

Late in her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson recounts a conversation in 2018 with fellow journalist Taylor Branch on the state of race relations in America. Branch ...

There is a significant cohort of current Americans, who like their 19th Century Confederate forebearers, are preparing for civil war. While there are currently no Union or Confederate Armies forming ...

Leading scholar Suraj Milind Yengde shines a light on the Dalit experience internationally, from indentured labourers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean to present-day migrant workers in the Middle ...

An age-old discriminatory caste system, which labels some people slaves and others freeborn, has been abolished in a community in Imo State, writes OKODILI NDIDI Centuries after the abolition of the ...

You could stick a pin in a timeline across the last 2,000 years and the conditions that support and underpin slavery would be similar. Whether its Dalits in debt bondage in Indian brick kilns, African ...

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah told the Assembly that followers of Basavanna must reject Karma Siddhanta, linking caste persistence to fatalism and historical “mindset of slavery”.

Migrant workers and families in Chennai wait to board a special train to Bihar state in May 2020 after India's government eased a nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Many migrants are victims of ...