CAST Hotline Semiannual Report January – June 2021

Last fall, The New York Times Magazine published a story about the “Blade,” a stretch of Figueroa Street in Los Angeles where sex work and trafficking, including the exploitation of...

Looking back at a New York Times magazine story to examine what responsible coverage of sex trafficking looks like—and what it doesn’t.

LOS ANGELES (May 4, 2026) —The Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (Cast), the largest direct service provider supporting survivors of human trafficking in the U.S., today announced it has...