Netfa Freeman says racism in the US is deep-rooted because the country has been founded on slavery and prejudice. 

Britain was once one of the world’s best established nations of slavery, with the likes of London, Liverpool, Glasgow and Bristol, all funded by the profits of the trade.

UK was one of the world’s founding countries of slavery.

There are concerns that the coronavirus pandemic is pushing more people into modern slavery.

British financial institutions such as Lloyd’s of London, who have benefitted from slavery, should go further than saying sorry for their role in the Atlantic slave trade and atone for their sins by funding Caribbean development, the region’s countries said.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologised after his controversial comments on Australian slavery.

The killing of George Floyd has brought about an international movement for racial justice that the world has been witnessing in the last two weeks.

The London Assembly’s police and crime committee has called for a restructuring of how police and the mayor’s office handle the problem of slavery victims in London which, in just five years, has undergone a tenfold increase in numbers.

An Israeli rabbi is detained in occupied Jerusalem al-Quds on suspicion of holding dozens of women and children in slave-like conditions.

Whilst the death of 39 migrants is a huge tragedy, the bigger story is the daily misery and humiliation suffered by hundreds of thousands of migrants in Britain.