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Booker Prize urged to consider changing name over slavery link
The Independent US via AOL· 20 hours agoRadio 1Xtra host Richie Brave has said the Booker Prize, awarded since 1969 for the best work of...
Can 14 strangers from Wisconsin help America find common ground on abortion?
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 hours ago“Each one of us has a beginning, and that unique beginning … is conception,” Lang said. “And I would...
Slavery isn’t just a Southern story. The North benefited from stolen labor.
The Christian Science Monitor· 1 day 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 ...
There was far more to the British empire than slavery
Daily Telegraph· 2 days agoWriting in this paper, Professor Corinne Fowler provided evidence of the abuse and intimidation she...
Opinion | Slavery Reparations in California?
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoThe California Senate’s Judiciary Committee voted 8 to 1 this month to create the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency. This would be an agency to...
Rwandan opposition deplores UK deportation deal as 'modern slavery'
RFI via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoA British law to send unwanted migrants to Rwanda, which passed this week after months of wrangling,...
Adidas, Ye, and the death of DEI: A cautionary tale for corporate America
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 11 hours agoDespite a marketing narrative centering Black celebrities from culture and sports, former employees...
Police Arrest Rabbis Near Gaza-Israel Border at a Rally to Highlight Starvation
New York Times· 14 hours agoA group of about 30 rabbis and peace activists from Israel and the United States was trying to take...
Portugal must 'pay costs' of slavery and colonial crimes, president says
Reuters via AOL· 3 days agoPresident Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said late on Tuesday that Portugal was responsible for crimes...
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...