France’s powerful lower house voted finally to scrub a fundamental slavery-era edict from French law on Thursday. After the ...

The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing the Code Noir, or Black Code, the ...

Inside the emotional parliamentary fight to erase a brutal slavery decree-and why critics say France's reckoning is still ...

Lawmakers voted unanimously to strip the “Code Noir,” the texts that regulated slavery until it was abolished in 1848. Some ...

National assembly votes to repeal Code Noir under which enslaved people were beaten, raped and killed ...

Now that France has finally repealed the so-called Code Noir or Black Code, experts are urging the country to also consider ...

In yesterday’s edition of The Express, we published a story about the French National Assembly’s unanimous decision to repeal the country’s long-dormant Code Noir, or Black Code. Enacted in 1685 under ...

In May 2025, François Bayrou, then the prime minister of France, fielded an unusual question from a member of Parliament: Why hadn’t France formally revoked the Code Noir, the ...

French lawmakers have voted to formally repeal the 'Code noir', laws that defined enslaved individuals as property, although ...

Writer Canisia Lubrin, known for her poetry, has won this year's Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which honors women and nonbinary storytellers in the U.S. and Canada. Lubrin's debut fiction work, ...