One of the landmarks of Progressive Era legislation was the White Slave Traffic Act — better known as the Mann Act for its author, Illinois congressman James Robert Mann. The Mann Act made it a ...

The music mogul’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss a sex-trafficking charge, saying that the law involved has “racist ...

Full text of the White-Slave Traffic Act, as passed by the Sixty-First Congress on June 25, 1910: CHAP. 395 — An Act to further regulate interstate commerce and foreign commerce by prohibiting ...

Diddy says the feds are trying to take him down purely because he's a successful Black man, and they're using a law that's ...

According to the lawyers, the charges were based on the White-Slave Traffic Act, now known as the Mann Act. For the unversed, the Mann Act criminalizes the transportation of "any woman or girl for ...

The hip-hop mogul's legal team claims the Mann Act, a 1910 law under which the charge was brought, was "used to target Black men and supposedly protect white women from them." By Michael Saponara ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Among the several federal charges against Combs is a violation of the Mann Act, officially known as the White-Slave Traffic Act, which makes it illegal ...

it remained silent on why the Mann Act’s criminal penalties didn’t apply to the women Gaetz was alleged to have transported. The Ethics Committee next explained that Gaetz did not violate ...

In response to this threat, National Review’s editor, Rich Lowry, wrote a post titled “Get Lost,” in which he explained ...