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Slavery

National Watermelon Day and What It Means for Black People

August 3rd is referred to as National Watermelon Day. It is a day when people celebrate watermelons, or at least are supposed to. Regardless,...

SLAVERY 2017: RESETTLEMENT

SLAVERY IN 2017 December 12, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" Yesterday, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, launched an urgent appeal calling for 1,300 resettlement places for vulnerable...

SLAVERY 2017: UN’S WEAK RESPONSE

December 8, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" SLAVERY IN 2017 Yesterday, the UN Security Council (UNSC) adopted a feckless Presidential Statement on reports of migrants being sold into...

SLAVERY 2017: RETURN MIGRANTS

December 4, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" SLAVERY IN 2017 According to a Voice Of America (VOA) report, "an airlift is under way to repatriate some 15,000...

SLAVERY 2017: BLAME

December 4, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" SLAVERY IN 2017 The outrage over last month's report of a slave auction that occurred in the North African nation...

SLAVERY 2017: EMPLOY AFRICANS!

November 28, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" SLAVERY IN 2017 “African countries do nothing to make their young people stay, to give them work”, says  Amnesty International’s West...

SLAVERY 2017: BEYOND AFRICA

November 28, 2017 By Staff, "The Gist" SLAVERY IN 2017! Yesterday, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, started his African tour. His mission: to reduce African migration, increase...

SLAVERY IN 2017!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=2S2qtGisT34 Slave auction that occurred in the North African nation of Libya...slavery in 2017!   We here, at "The Gist" are absolutely OUTRAGED over this story!! SLAVERY IN...