Slavery Abolition

Website of the Year World 12 Feb, 2021 07:28 AM2 minutes to read A Queensland woman has been charged in relation to in an alleged sexual slavery ring uncovered in Brisbane last week. Hannah Christina Stead, 23, appeared in Brisbane Arrests Court on Friday after being charged with conducting a…

Image above: Portrait of Mollie Williams (Mississippi), taken as part of the Federal Writers’ Project This article was published online on February 9, 2021. On a rainy Thursday afternoon in November, I stepped inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, D.C. On past visits, I’d…

As Twitchy recently reported, the San Francisco United School District recently decided to change the names of 44 schools, including ones named after George Washington and Abraham Lincoln (who didn’t “demonstrate that black lives mattered to him”). In the introduction to his interview with Gabriela López, the head of the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Gilded Age cast continues to grow. Julian Fellowes’ HBO period drama has added four actors Sullivan Jones, Linda Emond, Michel Gill and Ward Horton – as recurring guest stars Jones, who features in Ewan McGregor’s Netflix mini-series Halston, plays T. Thomas Fortune, born into slavery, who in the…

What drives society's understanding of right and wrong? In this thought-provoking talk, futurist Juan Enriquez offers a historical outlook on what humanity once deemed acceptable -- from human sacrifice and public executions to slavery and eating meat -- and makes a surprising case that exponential advances in technology leads to…

“Amtrak Joe” loves trains. He has taken Amtrak round trips between Delaware and Washington, D.C., some 8,200 times. He almost took one to his presidential inauguration, and he actually did take one to his first vice presidential inauguration, later waxing sentimental about the experience in a cover story for Amtrak’s…

Black history in America, typically omitted or whitewashed, often requires extra labor from Black people to retell the narratives, add vital context and infuse ancestral wisdom to understand present-day conditions. Robert Jones Jr.'s debut novel, "The Prophets," embodies this practice of reclamation. Jones' offering, an instant New York Times bestseller,…

Hal Holbrook, the versatile stage and screen actor best known for his Tony-winning portrayal of Mark Twain, died Jan. 26 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 95. Holbrook’s assistant told the New York Times about his death on Monday. In the one-man play “Mark Twain Tonight!,” which Holbrook…

Yesterday, Lincoln Project senior adviser Rachel Bitecofer threatened to get Nicaraguan American Ana Navarro to run against her fellow “Cuban Floridian” Marco Rubio. In case Bitecofer ends up making good on her threat, it’s probably a good idea for Rubio to know exactly what he’s up against: .@ananavarro on. @GOPLeader…

“I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be nearly reached as we can.” – Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, is considered by many to be one of the greatest presidents in the history of our great…