Slavery Abolition

WEBSITE OF THE YEAR APP OF THE YEAR World 2 May, 2022 12:24 AM2 minutes to read A US teacher has been put into administrative leave after a poorly received lesson on slavery. Photo / Getty A white teacher in upstate New York has been suspended after telling a class…

School officials in Rochester, New York, are investigating allegations that a white teacher told his class of mostly Black students to pick seeds out of cotton and put on handcuffs during lessons on slavery in a seventh-grade social studies class. “It made me feel bad to be a Black person,”…

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Hundreds of civil rights activists are expected to show up at Georgia's Stone Mountain on Saturday to protest at the return of an annual celebration of the Confederacy at the foot of a towering monument to the heroes of the South's proslavery past. The state chapter of the Sons of…

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comATLANTA, April 30 (Reuters) - Carrying signs decrying "racist traitors," about a hundred civil rights activists marched and chanted at Georgia's Stone Mountain on Saturday to protest at the return of an annual celebration of the Confederacy. The protest took place at the…

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Princess Eugenie took to social media to announce the release of her podcast which will tackle modern slavery. The 32-year-old took to Instagram to share the exciting news about her podcast which is in conjunction with her "The Anti-Slavery Collective" charity. She shared a photo of her friend and co-founder,…

Guyana's president has called for an apology from the UK over its role in the transatlantic slave trade after meeting Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Speaking to Sky News, Irfaan Ali explained that a decision calling for reparations over "one of the greatest atrocities in human history" must be taken by…

Harvard University on Tuesday announced a massive study of slavery and how the Ivy League university profited from it, and the university paired that announcement with a promise of a $100 million fund to address the effects of the university’s past. Unlike with other contrite statements made regarding slavery, Harvard…

On Tuesday, Harvard University released findings from its yearslong investigation into its legacy of slavery. “Over nearly 150 years, from the university’s founding in 1636 until the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found slavery unlawful in 1783, Harvard presidents and other leaders, as well as its faculty and staff, enslaved more…