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Booker Prize urged to consider changing name over slavery link
The Independent US via AOL· 8 hours agoRadio 1Xtra host Richie Brave has said the Booker Prize, awarded since 1969 for the best work of...
There was far more to the British empire than slavery
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoWriting in this paper, Professor Corinne Fowler provided evidence of the abuse and intimidation she...
Slavery isn’t just a Southern story. The North benefitted from stolen labor.
The Christian Science Monitor· 24 hours agoAfter the Panic of 1837, bankers like the Browns assumed legal possession of these “assets” when planters defaulted on their loans. Investigative journalist David Montero untangles the economic ...
Review | Erik Larson vividly captures the struggle for Fort Sumter
Washington Post· 2 hours agoA century or so ago, in an era of racial denialism, historians groped for any explanation besides ...
Barbados 'pauses' acquisition of former slavery plantation owned by Tory MP
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBarbados will halt the acquisition of a former slavery plantation belonging to a British...
UN rights chief urges states to act on slavery reparations
Reuters via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe United Nations human rights chief called for countries to take concrete steps on reparations for...
'Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello' exhibit at Atlanta History...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution· 7 days ago'Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello' exhibit at Atlanta History Center
Portugal must 'pay costs' of slavery and colonial crimes, president says
Reuters via AOL· 2 days agoPresident Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said late on Tuesday that Portugal was responsible for crimes...
‘Appalling’: Keynote Speaker at Legacy of Slavery Symposium Calls for Faster Repatriation of...
The Harvard Crimson· 15 hours agoTara Houska, a tribal attorney and activist who served as the keynote speaker during the second day...
An open letter to the Columbia University Gaza war protesters from a pro-Palestinian activist in...
JTA· 1 hour agoStudent activists are denying Jews the rights and dignity that they seek for Palestinians, writes a...