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Granderson: Eliminating national holidays is a promising idea. Start with the racist ones Slavery Abolition

Granderson: Eliminating national holidays is a promising idea. Start with the racist ones

The French government observes Good Friday and Easter Monday, creating a four-day weekend every year for many workers. (Vincent Koebel / NurPhoto) July 19, 2025 3:01 AM PT Believe it or not, France has had a form of social security since the 1600s, and its modern system began in earnest…
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July 19, 2025
Awujale’s Burial Has Freed Yoruba Kings From Ritual Slavery, Kings Should Not Be Butchered Like Animals After De@th – Oluwo Slavery Abolition

Awujale’s Burial Has Freed Yoruba Kings From Ritual Slavery, Kings Should Not Be Butchered Like Animals After De@th – Oluwo

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has described the burial rites of the late Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, as a liberation for the Yoruba traditional institution and a significant move towards restoring its sanctity. Oba Akanbi expressed satisfaction with the burial rites adopted in honouring the late…
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July 16, 2025
A volunteer finds the Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents in Massachusetts Slavery Abolition

A volunteer finds the Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents in Massachusetts

GROTON, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th century journals. Opening it, she found a scroll in pristine condition. A closer look revealed the 5-foot-long (1.5-meter-long) document was a handwritten declaration titled “A Resolution…
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July 3, 2025
Elon Musk Launches a Scathing New Attack on Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Slavery Abolition

Elon Musk Launches a Scathing New Attack on Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”

Elon Musk has shattered his political silence with a series of blistering attacks aimed directly at the legislative centerpiece of the Trump administration. Just hours before a critical Senate vote on the president’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX reiterated his fierce opposition, escalating a…
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June 29, 2025
JACK POSOBIEC: ‘Autopen hire’ Kentanji Brown Jackson’s propagandist dissent and the liberal erasure of US history Slavery Abolition

JACK POSOBIEC: ‘Autopen hire’ Kentanji Brown Jackson’s propagandist dissent and the liberal erasure of US history

"Liberals don't actually care about anything that happened prior to 1965 other than slavery." Jack Posobiec took aim at Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the man who nominated her, President Joe Biden, and the erasure of American history other than slavery and the Civil Rights movement. "Ketanji Brown Jackson, she's an…
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June 27, 2025
Police officers threaten nationwide strike over ‘slavery-like’ pension scheme, give July ultimatum Slavery Abolition

Police officers threaten nationwide strike over ‘slavery-like’ pension scheme, give July ultimatum

Disgruntled personnel of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) have issued a nationwide strike threat over their continued inclusion in the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), which they described as exploitative and unsustainable. The aggrieved officers, in a strongly worded open letter addressed to President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, the…
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June 25, 2025
Juneteenth goes uncelebrated at White House as Trump complains about ‘too many’ holidays Slavery Abolition

Juneteenth goes uncelebrated at White House as Trump complains about ‘too many’ holidays

Politics President Donald Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, other than saying there were too many like it. Lesser occasions routinely garner official proclamations. “I’m not tracking his signature on a proclamation today,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House…
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June 20, 2025