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A group of Caribbean leaders has met with senior clergy from the Church of England as the push for slavery reparations intensifies. Activists also are calling for the independence of British, French, Dutch and U.S. territories in the region. The reparations commission from Caribbean trade bloc Caricom also was scheduled to meet with British parliamentarians on Tuesday as part of a four-day official trip to the United Kingdom to seek reparations.

With a measuring tape and waterproof notepad in hand, genealogist Shellie Baxter swims around a shipwreck embedded into the ocean’s floor in the Florida Keys. The water is warmer than the San Diego shores she’s used to, but this is still her most challenging dive yet – she is learning how to document slave shipwrecks.

Dozens of people came to honor the estimated 2 million people who died at sea during the Middle Passage — the brutal forced voyages that carried over 10 million African captives across the Atlantic.

Local officials in Florida's capital city have voted to sell a city-owned golf course built on top of the graves of enslaved people to a once-segregated country club. The Tallahassee City Commission voted 3 to 2 to approve the deal Wednesday, despite vocal opposition from local residents and historians.

COMMENTARY By likening Trump's immigrant-demonization crusade to Lincoln's abolition of slavery, Miami U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar risks discrediting her own Lincolnesque immigration reform efforts.

For the first time, descendants of slave owners and slaves in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat at the same table with diplomats and experts from those nations to discuss the issue of reparations.

Brazil received more slaves from Africa than any other place did. But the country has struggled to have meaningful conversations about its past. Until now.

The Florida Department of Education has issued new standards for teaching Black history in public schools. On the South Florida Roundup, we discussed reaction to the controversy.

The caucus wants the federal agencies to examine whether Florida school districts are violating federal discrimination law following changes to the curriculum in the state — from banning books covering racial themes to a recent decision to add language about the positive impacts of slavery.

COMMENTARY Florida's ham-handed and offensive new slavery education agenda puts it at the head of a centuries-long effort to whitewash the New World's original sin.

Several hundred documents and items giving the details of victims of slavery in France’s colonial empire is being added to UNESCO’s “Memory of the World” register.

There’s a glaring loophole in the U.S. 13th Amendment: incarcerated Americans can be slaves of the state. Four states recently amended their constitutions to ban unpaid prison labor — but a similar proposal in Florida now isn't moving forward, with lawmakers citing a climate of political fear over race-related issues in the state.