A 16th-century French legal tenet said "there are no slaves in France," but art from the reign of Louis XIV tells a different story.

Cuba is experiencing unrest over food and medicine shortages and political and economic concerns. Ada Ferrer explains what its past tells about its present.

Palm oil is responsible for widespread deforestation and labor abuses, but it's also cheap and incredibly useful. That's why many advocates call for reforming the industry, not replacing it.

A historian breaks down what celebrating Juneteenth means today and what it teaches us about enslaved Black people's struggle for freedom.

A new book explores the emergence of both racial slavery and capitalism in American history, and how the legacy of that link haunts us today.

If the US paid reparations to descendants of enslaved people, the COVID-19 pandemic wouldn't have hit so hard across racial groups, research finds.

Forced labor is a widespread problem in fisheries on the high seas. Between 2012 and 2018, an estimated 100,000 people may have been victims of forced labor on thousands of different boats.

One in six fishers in the Gulf of Thailand have been coerced or deceived into working against their will.

100 years after the 19th Amendment's passage, an expert digs into how the intersection of gender and racial justice inspired the women's suffrage movement.

We tend to interpret "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence to mean individual equality. That's not right, says historian Jack Rakove.