Slavery Abolition

Laura Trevelyan left her job as a BBC journalist to campaign for more reparations to families affected by the legacy of slavery...Read More

The  descendants of some of the country’s biggest slave owners have launched a joint appeal for the Government to apologise – and atone for Britain’s role in slavery – including a programme of restorative justice. The signatories include the current Earl of Harewood. Symeon Brown went to meet David Lascelles…

May 06, 2023 - 6:39AM Oovvuu A wealthy Nigerian politician and his wife have been jailed for plotting to traffic a young man to the UK to harvest his organ for their sick daughter in a legal first. Following a landmark modern slavery case, multi-millionaire Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his…

Netflix A couple of key casting additions have taken place on Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” sequel whilst the project has also switched a previously cast key role. The project is a follow-up to the 2001 best picture Oscar winner, which followed Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), a former general who is…

David Starkey, who is no stranger to controversy, drew criticism from the Board of Deputies of British Jews. (May 18, 2023 / JNS) It was the Tweet heard around parts of the United Kingdom. Then it disappeared. Now it’s back. “The reason the left has such ire for the Jews…

Media are invited; Conversation will also be streamed live Ahead of new bishop’s consecration, two North Carolinians will share vastly different family histories of slavery in a conversation focused on reparations for slavery, economic justice, and environmental justice.   NEW YORK — The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Most…

ENUGU STATE- The Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), will hold an International Conference on resilience against slavery. Dr. Ikechukwu Erojikwe, the Convener of the conference and a Senior Lecturer at the department of Theatre and Film Studies, UNN, disclosed this in Nsukka on Monday…

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A panel set up by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in 2020 approved recommendations Saturday in Oakland for reparations for slavery and an apology, even though the state entered the Union as a free state in 1850. The Los Angeles Times reported: California’s Reparations Task Force voted on Saturday to recommend…

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