Slavery Abolition

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Updated 2 weeks ago · Published on 4 Oct 2022 7:50AM · Will Smith has kept a relatively low profile since that night at the Academy Awards, when he won best actor for his performance in ‘King Richard’ just minutes after he had marched on stage and hit Rock for…

Apple Apple Original Films has set a December 2nd theatrical opening for its Will Smith-led run-from-slavery thriller “Emancipation”. The film, which hails from director Antoine Fuqua, will then have a December 9th release on the Apple TV+ streaming site. In addition the official teaser trailer for the fact-based film has…

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…