Slavery Abolition

WASHINGTON —  It’s no secret that Kevin McCarthy wants to be the next speaker of the House. The Republican leader made that clear Thursday night and into Friday morning in the most literal way possible: by speaking — longer than any member of the chamber ever has. McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) commanded the…

November 19, 2021 2:27 PM ET White House press secretary Jen Psaki blasted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy following his eight-and-a-half hour long floor speech that temporarily delayed passage of the Build Back Better Act. “Kevin McCarthy said a lot of words. A lot of words. I just want to…

In Focus Gallery has published report linking some of its most famous donors, artists and paintings to the Atlantic slave tradeThe National Gallery has published a report that links “a significant part of its collection”, and some of its most famous donors, artists and paintings to the Atlantic slave trade,…

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke for 5 hours and counting Thursday night. His speech stalled the vote on the Democrats' $1.75 trillion social-spending bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi taunted McCarthy while he was still going, asking if he was okay. Loading Something is loading. We are so sorry! We…

A new course at McMaster University is aimed at kick starting conversations about the history of slavery and how Black freedom struggles impact life today, including the Raptors' "We The North" slogan. A new course at McMaster University is aimed at getting students to think about the history of slavery…

It is in decentralization that nature dwells. In centralization, we have seen only masks; we have seen only rogues who deceive fools; charlatans who come to governments to get some money, who send men to war while they go in to plunder their refrigerators with impunity, who plunge them into…

With all the rape, sex trafficking, and slavery shown, it's a bit of an understatement to call this a deeply uncomfortable episode. It's to the point that, even if I watch this series again sometime down the road, I'll almost certainly skip over this one. That said, I don't think…

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Introduction The emergence of 17-year cicadas in the summer of 2021 revived interest in a paper Janet Barber co-authored about the role of Benjamin Banneker—a free African-American in 18th-century Maryland—as one of the first naturalists to record scientific information and observations of the insects. Now, like Banneker himself, those cicadas…

Nir Eisikovits is an associate professor of Philosophy and Director at the Applied Ethics Center, University of Massachusetts Boston. This story originally published on The Conversation. To mark Israel’s Memorial Day in 2021, the Israel Defense Forces musical ensembles collaborated with a company that specializes in synthetic videos, also known…