Slavery Abolition

Website of the Year World 29 Mar, 2021 06:58 AM3 minutes to read Boydtown in southern NSW. Photo / Google A historic village in New South Wales will likely be renamed because of its "racist" links to slavery. Boydtown on the state's south coast was named after Scottish-born entrepreneur Benjamin…

Commentary The U.S. Civil War was an extraordinary and unique event in world history. For the first and only time, a country sacrificed hundreds of thousands of its own citizens in a righteous fight to end the evil of slavery. That fight had begun years before with many heroes risking…

The next game based on J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy series is The Lord of the Rings: Gollum. Developer and publisher Dadelic Entertainment just released a new trailer with gameplay footage during the Future Games Show. Set in the years after The Hobbit and just before The Lord of the Rings,…

Preservation activists are working to save forgotten U.S. Civil War battlefields with deep connections to Black and Latino soldiers who fought to save the U.S. and eradicate slavery. Why it matters: The move to reintroduce Black and Latino heroes of the Civil War comes as a federal commission seeks to…

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End Modern Slavery of Engage Now Africa (ENA) has helped to secure justice for a 12-year-old girl who was allegedly defiled by an Imam at Mameng, a village at Kwahyia in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Justice Effia Addison sentenced the Imam, named Ishmaila Salam, a Nigerian, to 10 years…

The confessed Atlanta mass shooter, according to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s office, described his targets as “an outlet.” As police put it in a statement, he told them the crimes were “not racially motivated,” that he “blames the massage parlors for providing an outlet for his addiction to sex.” Compare that to groups…

“They must be the most contented people in the world.” This is how the 1980 comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy introduces the San peoples of the Kalahari Desert, better known as the Bushmen. They eke out a simple living, the narrator explains, digging for roots and tubers, hunting with…

It should be clear by now that the 117th Congress will go down as one of the most consequential Congresses in modern American history. Reasonable people can disagree on precisely why. Some have insisted since the passage of the coronavirus relief package that Congress has already broken the neoliberal economic…

An Illinois city has become the first in America to embark upon a reparations program for its Black residents after its local council approved the implementation of its first such initiative to tackle the legacy of slavery. Late on Monday night aldermen in Evanston – a suburban community in Chicago…