Slavery Abolition

By Angie Brown BBC Scotland, Edinburgh and East reporter image copyrightMelissa Highton image captionThe image, painted by Ross Blair, was photographed by Melissa HightonBoris Johnson gave US President Joe Biden a framed photograph of a mural of a 19th Century anti-slavery campaigner to mark their first meeting. The image of…

Credit: Keele University The COVID-19 pandemic has made more people vulnerable to modern slavery and caused an increase in worker exploitation and child labor around the world, Keele researchers have found. Keele University researchers Professor Tomoya Obokata and Dr. Forough Ramezankhah have published a new report into the impact of…

Ferguson, a middle schooler in Ontario, Canada, had been tapping out the same four-letter sequence on his keyboard for hours. W, A, S, D. W, A, S, D. He was steering his digital avatar, a Lego-man-like military grunt, in laps around a futuristic airfield. Although his fingers ached, he would…

Published: 10:14pm, 9 Jun, 2021 Updated: 10:14pm, 9 Jun, 2021 Read More

Home News The Great Casterton Roman burial shackles were found locked around the skeleton's ankles. (Image credit: Copyright MOLA) A man who died in Roman Britain more than 1,500 years ago was buried wearing padlocked iron shackles securing his ankles, and his burial "is perhaps the best candidate" for the…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is running for president in 2024. Or, if his mentor and ally Donald Trump claims the Republican nomination, DeSantis will gladly jump on board as Mike Pence’s replacement on the ticket that is prepared to wage a culture war more visceral than anything the United States…

The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, slammed a federal judge’s decision to overturn his state’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons as “a direct threat to public safety and the lives of innocent Californians”. In a strongly worded attack, the Democrat added: “Comparing an AR-15 to a Swiss army knife is…

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There’s one big lesson from Donald Trump’s career in business: Think twice before making a deal with him. The former president is notorious for refusing to pay people, ranging from drapiers and cabinetmakers to plumbers and chauffeurs, for the goods and services that they provide. Trump fought hundreds of lawsuits…

Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler’s penultimate novel, follows a charismatic Black woman named Lauren Olamina as she struggles to defend her commune, escapes a prison camp, and builds a religion, intending to send her followers to outer space. Published in 1998, the novel takes place in the 2020s and…