Slavery Abolition

The boss of Twitter and Square has said that both firms will honour Juneteenth as a company holiday in America.Jack Dorsey also said Twitter was working to identify which days it made most sense to recognise the end of slavery in other countries.Juneteenth is observed by many African-Americans on 19…

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has compared the New Iconoclasm of Black Lives Matter to the Taliban after the far-left group tore down the statue of a local historic figure who owned slaves. On Sunday, Black Lives Matters activists tore down a statue in Bristol of seventeenth-century parliamentarian and philanthropist Edward…

The wisdom of leaders like 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass is critical at this moment in America’s history. The Rev. Dean Nelson, the executive director of Human Coalition Action and chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, joins the show to explain what Douglass’ message to America might be if he were…

Some images from the Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on Saturday will linger long in the memory. The sheer scale and physical density of the march, as viewed from above, is one, simultaneously impressive in its display of solidarity and terrifying for NHS medics anxious to avert a 'second wave'…

Anti-racism involves an active commitment to dismantling structures that perpetuate racism. Scott Heins/Getty Images "Anti-racism is an active and conscious effort to work against multidimensional aspects of racism," Robert J. Patterson, professor of African American Studies at Georgetown University, told Business Insider.Racism scholar Ibram X. Kendi says one is either…

Sign up to get our new weekly column as a newsletter. We're looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. (CNN)Abraham Lincoln knew the value of a good photo. In February 1860, the former congressman from Illinois posed for Matthew Brady in…

Trump has claimed that he has done more for the black community than his predecessors.Washington: President Donald Trump sparked controversy Friday, calling it a "great day" for George Floyd, the man whose death in custody last week unleashed nationwide protests over police brutality against African Americans."We all saw what happened…

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump sparked controversy Friday (Jun 5), calling it a "great day" for George Floyd, the man whose death in custody last week unleashed nationwide protests over police brutality against African Americans."We all saw what happened last week. We can't let that happen," Trump said of Floyd, who…

Since the May 25 murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department, the world’s seen many days straight of protest, of resistance, of demands for change, of work—hard work. And this work can look like many things: enduring the tear gas and rubber bullets of police…

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Statues of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln tower over visitors to Kentucky's Capitol, but the state's governor doesn't think the Confederate president belongs in the same space as the U.S. president who helped end slavery. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday that he sees the Davis statue…