Slavery Abolition

“I walk toward one of our ponds,” Thoreau wrote in “Slavery in Massachusetts,” “but what signifies the beauty of nature when men are base?” August 11, 2021 1. The path to Walden, as you walk north along the western edge of Adams Woods, comes to a fork just beyond the…

Features Tyrell Gittens Sunday 8 August 2021 Daniel Rajkumar, 10, enjoys drawing because it makes him feel happy. - Photo by Angelo Marcelle Daniel Rajkumar, ten, loves to draw because it makes him feel happy, and relieves stress. So, at his Sangre Grande home, he ensures that his drawing materials…

A new Niagara Historical Society book chronicles the forgotten or never-recognized stories of Black women from the region, including how one woman helped keep a Black man free after he escaped slavery in Kentucky by stealing his "owner's" horse and came to Canada. Winnifred Wesley, shown in this Niagara Public…

(RNS) — The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare this country’s ongoing but often ignored pandemic of racial inequity. It has also clarified the long-neglected case for reparations. Influential author Ta-Nehisi Coates brought the idea of reparations back to public attention in 2014 when he called for America to reckon with…

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Author of the article: Anne Jarvis A mural honouring Howard Watkins, one of Canada's first African-Canadian detectives — one of 16 murals honouring Black history in Paterson Park — is shown defaced with blue paint, on Sunday, May 2,…

Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey walked back her remarks likening COVID-19 vaccine credentials to slavery-era freedom papers. She came under fire after rejecting proof-of-vaccination policies. Janey said she regretted the analogy "because they took away from the important issue" of addressing the spread of COVID-19. Loading Something is loading. Acting…

In this March 23, 2016 file photo, tuna caught by foreign fishermen aboard American boats are lined up at the Honolulu Fish Auction at Pier 38 in Honolulu. A tuna fishing boat based in the Pacific island nation of Fiji that has been accused of essentially enslaving its crew was…

One of Raj Sookram’s tenants stopped paying rent in December. Another man hasn’t paid him a cent in 20 months. He now owes Sookram over $20,000. One woman stopped paying this spring, Sookram said, then demanded that he fix her hot water heater when it blew. That ended with city…

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Letters to the Editor Newsday Wednesday 4 August 2021 THE EDITOR: I offer here a few considerations (omissions) with respect to our observance of emancipation. Firstly, there is an issue larger than African slavery which is the notion of any one group subjugating another and how slavery was gradually then…