Amsterdam City ArchivesThe Insinger sisters who founded the foundation of the same name in 1913 NOS Nieuws•maandag, 15:03 Insinger was a very big name during the time of slavery. The share of plantations in Suriname was considerable, the number of enslaved people enormous. But never before has research into the history of slavery been conducted … Read more
2023-07-02 06:16:00 “Today I stand before you as king and member of government. Today I personally apologize to you,” Willem-Alexander said to cheers at an event marking 150 years of the emancipation of slaves in the former Dutch colonies, at the Oosterpark in Amsterdam. Thousands of descendants of people enslaved in the former South American … Read more
Jackson, Mississippi was at the center of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. As the home of activists like Medgar Evers and the scene of some of the nation’s most significant protests of the era, Jackson was at the heart of the fight for equality in the United States. Of every … Read more
The Blues tells of the hard life in the Mississippi Delta. In this vast plain, where black Americans worked as former enslaved cotton pickers and farmers, the genre of blues music emerged. The melodies and emotional lyrics developed from the gospel – the “spirituals” – which told the story of the black resistance, from work … Read more
Antoine Fuqua recently held a screening for his upcoming Apple TV+ film Emancipationwhich stars Will Smith as the real-life slave who famously posed for a photo published in Harper’s Weekly that showcased his horrifically scarred back (a crucial piece of compelling evidence for campaigns once morest slavery at the time), and everyone seems to have … Read more
Published on : 02/08/2022 – 22:37Modified : 03/08/2022 – 00:36 In a series of tweets this Tuesday, August 2, Nana Akufo-Addo pleads for financial reparations to be paid to victims of slavery in Africa, adding that it is high time there was a debate on the subject. « It’s time for Africa – whose 20 … Read more
AA / Peter Kum In a series of tweets, Ghana’s president on Tuesday reiterated his remarks made at a Monday summit in Accra on racial reparations and healing, a speech in which he pleaded for reparations to be paid. to the African continent. “It is time that Africa, whose 20 million sons and daughters had … Read more
Published on : 14/05/2022 – 11:52Modified : 14/05/2022 – 11:57 The fight once morest slavery is progressing in Mauritania where this practice is treated as a crime once morest humanity in the Constitution. This is the observation made by the United Nations special rapporteur in charge of modern forms of slavery, Tomoya Obokata, who has … Read more