Slavery Abolition

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…

The National Railway Museum and universities across Yorkshire and the north of England will investigate the possible links between railways and the global slave trade as part of a £9,000 research project. The project - backed by York, Leeds and Sheffield Universities - will 'examine the economic, social and infrastructural…

It was back in 2002 when chocolatier Chantal Coady OBE opened a package and a bar of Grenada Chocolate Company chocolate slid out on to her desk. As founder of the Rococo brand – which revolutionised luxury British confectionery when she opened the first shop on London’s Kings Road in…

Editorial Newsday Friday 5 November 2021 Slave shackles on display at Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture when it opened in 2016. Photo taken from travelandleisure.com - The question of reparations for slavery has been around for a while now, but the tabling of a motion in…

November 2, 2021 Marketing & Communcations 630-829-6000 media@ben.edu Maryam Salik of Naperville, IL has been named Benedictine University’s Lincoln Academy Student Laureate to be honored at the Academy’s 57th annual Convocation at the Chicago History Museum on November 6. The Lincoln Academy of Illinois presents the award to a student…

At a legislative meeting in Kansas on Saturday, opponents of vaccine mandates condemned such orders, with one person claiming they're part of a plan to "annihilate humanity." During the meeting, members of the public gave testimony to lawmakers on the state legislature's Special Committee on Government Overreach and the Impact…

A drug dealer jailed in 2019 for selling crack has been given an order banning him from associating with children for the next three years. Kofie Welch, 26, must also register his car or any vehicle he’s insured to drive with the police – after a judge at Oxford Magistrates’…

If Illinois is the “Land of Lincoln,” Springfield is the epicenter. Abraham Lincoln made Springfield his home from 1844 to 1861 before becoming president. Springfield offers a multitude of attractions related to the iconic president, boasting more Lincoln sites than anywhere in the world. Step into the past and the…

The photographs of the U.S. Border Patrol charging at Haitian migrants who had gathered in Del Rio, Texas, last month, were a traumatic reminder for Junior, a 26-year-old asylum-seeker, of what his fellow Haitians have been through already and how the United States might treat him in the future. “Those…