Last Friday, Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales was interviewed on CNN, talking about modern-day slavery in the United States. He stressed that victims of slavery are often the people we overlook—”the people we tend to treat as if they were almost invisible.” Take a closer look, he urges. Learn to see the signs that slavery might be happening. And report it, when you see it. Here is the National Human Trafficking Hotline from Polaris Project: 1-888-3737-888
The Outlaw Ocean: Special Reports in August
Editor's Note: Free the Slaves is honored this month to highlight the investigative reporting of journalist Ian Urbina of the New York Times, creator of The Outlaw Ocean Project. His award-winning series first appeared in the Times in 2015. For the past four years,...