Slavery Abolition

Harvey Matthews was born in the River Road community. He stands with Macedonia Baptist Church First Lady, Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, also president of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition. She has led the fight to preserve and prevent further desecration of the cemetery. André Chung for NPR hide caption toggle caption André…

Synopsis The enquiry, which was launched in 2019 and published as a digest on Friday, aimed to shed a light on the ways in which the university was involved in the slave trade, as well as how its scholarship shaped public and political opinion, reinforcing racist ideas between the 18th…

Image source, Mirror Weekly Image caption, Taiwanese masseur Yang Weibin was one of thousands who fell prey to job scams By Tessa Wong in Singapore, Bui Thu in Bangkok & Lok Lee in Hong Kong BBC News It was an offer he could not resist: an easy job overseas, a…

Four thousand is a reference to the 40 acres Black people were supposed to receive as reparations and start-up seed investment after the US Civil War, reparations that were never fully distributed. Kanye seems to be saying, we never got our 40 acres, but on my own, I amassed 100…

King Charles's reign ushers in a new era for the British monarchy, but the descendants of slaves in Britain's former colonies are waiting to see what he may do to atone for the Royal Family's links to the transatlantic slave trade. Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness called the King's mother, Queen…

Bishop Derek Grier, right, founder of Let’s Talk, talks with missionary Doug Gentile outside the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Sept. 13, 2022, in Washington. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) — For missionary Doug Gentile, it was seeing the “shackles for tiny children” used…

With its history of slavery, concentration camps, executions and torture, what would reparations and accountability look like? Queen Elizabeth’s eldest son has succeeded her, and is now King Charles III. Credit: Government of Canada / Canada.com It has long been said that “the sun never sets on the British Empire,” referring…

Abraham Lincoln and Us, a new book by Frederick Chappell, has been released by RoseDog Books. Most people know that Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, moved to Illinois, lived in a log cabin, was known for being honest, wore a stove hat and a long coat, wrote the Gettysburg…

Local Harvard joins universities like Georgetown, Brown and the University of Virginia in trying to atone for their links to slavery. Roberta Wolff-Platt standing outside of the Longfellow House in Cambridge, Mass., the home where her ancestor Darby Vassall was enslaved. Vanessa Leroy / The New York Times By Anemona…

 Modern slavery is a growing challenge thanks to a mix of armed conflict, climate change and the global pandemic, a new UN report says. International Labour Organisation (ILO) esti­mates suggest that 50 mil­lion people – or one out of every 150 people alive – are trapped in forced labour or…