Slavery Abolition

There are some figures whose place in the story of the American past is so central that schoolchildren cannot help but know them: George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln, or Rosa Parks. But there is also a group of people who have not passed into national legend, and perhaps whose lives…

“Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can…

The Chinese government publication Global Times welcomed electric car company Tesla to Xinjiang, this week, claiming that CEO Elon Musk’s decision to do business in a region known for enslaving ethnic minorities is an indication American companies are “shrugging off” human rights concerns. The Global Times also took Musk’s move into Urumqi…

American Lawyer features twelve attorneys who transformed American legal history. They include Abraham Lincoln, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Robert Jackson, Russell Baker, Thurgood Marshall, Joseph Flom, Joe Jamail, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Johnny Cochran, Larry Sonsini, Catharine MacKinnon and David McCraw. Northport, NY, January 05, 2022 --(PR.com)-- “American Lawyer is a tour de…

The Home Office confirmed more than 2,000 children who entered the UK over the last four years have been victims of human trafficking, according to new statistics. Newly revealed data shows that the Home Office received 2,634 child refugee referrals during this time period for a scheme which supports victims of…

The removal of the Thomas Jefferson statue in New York City is about “hatred of white Americans” rather than slavery, according to documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz. “I did a hidden camera video in the city of New York where I asked people to take down the statue of George Washington…

The call for reparations is being sounded beyond the U.S., with activists and political leaders demanding accountability for slavery and colonization of their countries. In Jamaica, which became a British colony in the 1650s, the government has begun a push for reparations, seeking redress for nearly two centuries of slavery…

The Mad King was an anti-slavery trailblazer: How George III branded European traffickers 'repugnant' and denounced trade in text he wrote as a boy... five decades before he signed AbolitionGeorge III argued against slavery in the precis of a 1748 political treatise He says slavery is 'equaly (sic) repugnant to the…

The idea that America is a white country goes back to the days long before the Revolutionary War, when men like Thomas Jefferson, a founding father of the idea, struggled nervously with what to do about all the Black and brown people in their midst. Read Full Article » Read…

Amid contentious national pushback over how much of the full history of slavery in the United States should be taught in schools, the holiday season represents a particularly overlooked period. Around the time Christmas was starting to become a national holiday in the late-19th century, propagandists of the Lost Cause—the…