Slavery Abolition

Owners of the Latta Plantation in Huntersville, North Carolina faced a rude awakening this week when members of the public called out their planned Juneteenth event. Coinciding with the holiday that commemorates the end of legalized slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865, the Latta Plantation promised an event highlighting…

Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) A prominent Trump supporter and frequent Fox News guest made some questionable comments at a conservative group summit Friday, calling the home delivery of marijuana available in some states "actually slavery."  Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk,…

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ordering the end of slavery — and in textbooks and classrooms across the US, that's usually where the story ends. But it wasn't until June 19, 1865, that the last enslaved African Americans in Texas finally learned that they…

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…