Slavery Abolition

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…

California governor Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference in San Diego, Calif., October 9, 2019. (Mike Blake/Reuters) California governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed a law on Wednesday that mandates the establishment of a state task force to develop possible reparations to the descendants of slaves. The new law…

About this story: To protect the privacy of the girls who were trafficked and to comply with Indian laws on identifying victims of sexual crimes, we are not disclosing their identities or those of their family members. We photographed them in ways intended to obscure their faces and altered some…

Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump and Jeff Daniels as James Comey in Showtime's "The Comey Rule." Image: Ben Mark Holzberg / CBS Television Studios / SHOWTIME By Proma Khosla2020-09-27 19:41:05 UTC Hollywood is inexplicably obsessed with mythologizing the Trump presidency. Maybe it's because we knew him as a TV personality…

Clint Smith, The Atlantic September 25, 2020 Our country is made better, not worse, by young people reckoning with the full legacy of the institution.Read Full Article » Related Topics: 1619 Project, History, Slavery Comment Show comments Hide Comments Log In with your RCMG Account Register Read More

Workers at De United Foods Industries Limited, makers of Indomie noodles, have cried out for help over what they described as modern-day slavery and unfair labour practices meted out on them since March.The workers said cooks, drivers, nannies, stewards and other groups working for the largely Asian staff of the…