Slavery Abolition

Local News H.R. 40 was first introduced by Rep. John Conyers in 1989, and would create a committee to study the effects of slavery and recommend reparations. Pressley announced her reintroduction of the bill surrounded by other U.S. Representatives, all of whom referenced the importance of pursuing the creation of…

WASHINGTON – Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the US, Sir Ronald Sanders, has written to the President of Harvard University on the institution honouring its commitments to addressing its historical benefits from slavery in the Caribbean nation.  “Harvard’s historical ties to Antigua and Barbuda are clear. The wealth derived from…

Rep. Ayanna Pressley will reintroduce H.R. 40, federal legislation to study reparations for slavery, on Wednesday as the Trump administration leads a wide-scale rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the federal government. The bill, which had 130 co-sponsors in the last session, is not likely to advance under…

Tribune Online Holocaust Remembrance Day versus slavery heritage THE world set aside January 27 every year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember one of the worst human tragedies of all times. The holocaust was a systematic genocide against European Jew population during the second world war...Read More

President Trump on Sunday announced that he asked the Treasury Department to stop producing pennies, calling the one cent coin wasteful. He said in a Truth Social post that he told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to end minting the small-value coins with President Abraham Lincoln’s image on them...Read More

For decades, Leonard Mambo Mobotela iconic voice and presence stood out as he contributed to the growth of the media industry and journalism in Kenya. Even in death, his legacy stands tall, with his family lifting the lid on little known details of his life. Childhood & family history with…

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday that the worst could be ahead in the escalating crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of The Congo (DRC), saying he expected sexual violence including incidents of rape and sexual slavery to increase. He spoke at an emergency meeting of the UN…

Budget Is By The People, For The People, Says FM Sitharaman | Image: ANI New Delhi: Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday described the Union Budget as "by the people, for the people, of the people", and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was fully behind the idea…

More than 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with President Abraham Lincoln continue to fascinate people. Abbott, a man of notable firsts, is included in Jill L. Newmark's book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons. In addition to…

Fires continue to rage in Los Angeles, and already they have ranked among the most destructive urban blazes in American history. So far, they have killed at least 29 people, destroyed 17,000 structures, and caused, by one count, in excess of $250 billion in damages and loss. Strong winds and…