The descendants of former British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone have officially apologized for their ancestor’s historical role in slavery in the Caribbean nation of Guyana.

Representatives from African and Caribbean organizations have gathered in the capital of Barbados, Bridgetown, to demand reparations for slavery.

A Reuters examination has found that more than 100 US political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders.

Activists have urged California state to provide millions of dollars in compensation to American Black citizens as a means of apologizing for slavery and past injustices.

This week we are focusing on the so-called apology by the government of the Netherlands over the country's role in slavery and the slave trade.

The UK's University of Cambridge gained “significant benefits” from the transatlantic slave trade.

African nations and Africans in the Diaspora are reviving their efforts to obtain reparations from colonial powers involved in the evil trans-Atlantic slave trade and other colonial-era atrocities committed centuries ago.