Photo courtesy of NPP News During their campaigns for the presidential and parliamentary elections, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his National People’s Power (NPP) party made several promises ...

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

TV news ran a mobile phone video recorded in Matale of an emissary of the JVP-NPP government visiting a household and communicating a cautioning from his party to a young man in a house in shabby ...

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The Indonesian House of Representatives has approved the Bill on the Fourth Amendment to Law Number 4 of 2009 concerning ...

Part genealogy study, part haunting narrative, historian Mary Frances Berry’s new book, “Slavery After Slavery: ...

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed involuntary servitude but it also made an exception for convicts.

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Kim Kardashian once defended Kanye West, even after his controversial comments, including his call to abolish the 13th ...

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A reading of the 14th Amendment grants Congress the authority to end birthright citizenship, the Constitution Leadership Initiative’s Gary Porter writes in a guest column ...

February is Black History Month, when the nation can pause and learn something about the culture of African Americans and ...