Slavery Abolition

Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has been found guilty of organ trafficking by a United Kingdom court. His wife, Beatrice Ekweremadu and Obinna Obeta, a doctor involved in the case, were also found guilty. The three were convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under…

Following the conviction of a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, and their doctor, Obinna Obeta after they were found guilty of organ trafficking, Nigerians have taken to social media to react. Ekweremadu’s conviction was the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act, after…

A senior Nigerian politician, his wife, daughter and a doctor have been convicted of organ trafficking, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, a former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, his wife, Beatrice, 56, daughter Sonia 25, and Dr Obinna Obeta,…

Acknowledge slave ownership and role of enslaved people and slave trade in enriching the church and its members “When we consider a violent, inhumane history of degradation and bondage,” says the Rt. Rev. Andrew ML Dietsche, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York speaking of the diocese’s upcoming Service…

Image source, Lauren/Geograph Image caption, Trinity College has pledged to donate £1m over five years to Cambridge Caribbean Scholarships A Cambridge University college is to appoint an academic to a four-year post to examine its legacies of slavery. Trinity College said its new Legacies of Slavery Research and Teaching Fellow…

Operation Makesafe awareness training has been rolled out to staff from businesses across Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford and around the local area. The Specialist Crime Command's Modern Slavery and Child Exploitation team and Stratford's Safer Neighbourhoods Team, working in partnership with the Safer Business Network, held an event on…

Participants at a lecture on new ideas for engagement with the African diaspora, have called for the institution of a truth and reconciliation process to help settle and assuage the scourge of slavery and to hasten the integration of African -Americans and Afro- Caribbeans back to the African continent. The…

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously accepted a draft plan with suggestions on how to pay millions in reparations to the city’s Black residents, in an effort to atone for centuries of slavery and systemic racism. The case for reparations has been made many times in recent years, particularly…

Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years, and homes in San Francisco for just $1 a family. These were some of the more than 100 recommendations made by a city-appointed…

Leonardo da Vinci’s mother was stolen from present-day Russia and enslaved, according to new research that will upend Italy’s understanding of its most famous artist. In another extraordinary twist, Italian historian Carlo Vecce has claimed that she was freed from slavery by da Vinci’s father, who was himself a well-known…