Slavery Abolition

Protesters in Portland, Oregon, pulled down statues of former Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and broke windows late Sunday amid a demonstration on what organizers called an “Indigenous Day of Rage,” NBC local affiliate KGW reported.Monday is the federal holiday Columbus Day, which some cities and states have renamed…

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Pelosi sounds warning on UK approval of Covid vaccine Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Representatives, has criticised the UK’s vaccine testing safety regime, declaring that London’s approval of a vaccine would not automatically mean it was safe according to the US’s own procedures. The Guardian says Pelosi’s…

A man writes a book. It is, he feels, “a kind of outpouring,” written from the same impulse “that makes him sing or try to go to bed with all beautiful ladies.” But then the critics blame the book for not being great.You didn’t want to be great. You just…

Features test user 7 Hrs AgoMarina Salandy-Brown - INTERNATIONAL Day for Reparations is marked on October 12. What does that mean for people in the Caribbean? In an era of the Black Lives Matter movement, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest believes people in the region are being presented with an…

"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…