Slavery Abolition

"Don't be afraid of COVID," U.S. President Donald Trump admonished Americans as he left Walter Reed Hospital after treatment for COVID-19. "Don't let it dominate your life." Gone was the pale and shaken leader who had been whisked away from the White House three days earlier, masked, to be hospitalized. He re-appeared…

In her newest book, Claudia Rankine takes on the oldest question in politics: How ought we to live together? Just Us completes Rankine’s trilogy of works on race in the United States, following Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric and Citizen: An American Lyric. Published in 2014, a…

Lately, right-wingers have been on something of a tear denying the existence of “systemic racism.” Harvard government professor Harvey Mansfield, writing on the conservative Wall Street Journal op-ed page, Andrew McCarthy in National Review, and Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute, all have argued that systemic racism is nothing…

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a Spanish Civil War veteran from Florida named John Hovan enlisted in the Navy, serving for three and a half years before he received an honorable discharge. After the war, Hovan worked as a civilian shoe repairman at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station…

On a Saturday morning in April 2018, Tayana Jacques, a Black woman, and Brian Mann, her white boyfriend, were walking together in Montreal’s trendy Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood when police stopped and questioned them over what the two officers called “making excessive noise.” Jacques and Mann were later fined $444 each. The…

The filmmaker Steve McQueen and Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees have been named in a list of “100 great black Britons” curated by Windrush campaigners and historians to mark Black History Month.Patrick Vernon and Dr Angelina Osborne came up with the idea to “honour the remarkable achievements of key Black British…

Adapting for change has been part and parcel of 2020 - especially in the UK’s restaurant, event and bar scene. October is no different and there’s a new roster of unique and socially-distant events to experience. Cinestock will launch the world’s first indoor drive-in cinema and London Cocktail Week - for the…

The EU Commission has confirmed that it will launch legal action against the UK’s attempt to override parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement.European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen announced today that the UK had been put on formal notice over the bill, giving Boris Johnson until the end of September to…

On Christmas Eve 2019 the Donald Trump campaign launched a website called snowflakevictory.com to give guidance to Trump’s supporters about how to deal with their “liberal relatives” over the holiday period. It featured 12 hot-button topics (immigration, impeachment, the environment) and witty comebacks to frequently-cited Democrat arguments.For someone reading that…

The State of California will study reparations to black Americans, thanks to a bill signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. AB 3121 will create a nine-member “Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of…