Slavery Abolition

London authorities urged protesters to stay home, for fear of clashes between far-right and anti-racism groups. Boris Johnson defended Winston Churchill's legacy, saying the UK could not "edit or censor" the past. Several statues in London were boarded up on Friday, as authorities expected anti-racism protests to take place over…

By: Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: June 19, 2020 9:43:25 pm The statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis splattered with paint after it was toppled on Wednesday, June 10, in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo: AP)US President Donald Trump has said he will not consider renaming military bases named after…

1 minute readJun 10th, 2020 3:43 PM EDT | NewsJack Dorsey announced late Tuesday that the two firms he leads, Twitter and Square, will mark June 19 as a holiday to show support for racial diversity. ‘Juneteenth’ will now permanently be a fixture for his firms in the U.S. (via…

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Dorsey says Twitter and Square will make company holidays of days celebrating emancipation in other countries. (File pic)SAN FRANCISCO: Jack Dorsey on Tuesday said that both companies he heads – Twitter and Square – are making “Juneteenth” a holiday for employees in commemoration of the end of slavery in the…

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…