Schoolchildren will learn more about Bristol’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade with a new textbook created by teachers and historians. It comes after last year’s Black Lives Matter protests and the toppling of the Edward Colston statue. Eight history teachers in Bristol worked together with Bristol museums and historians to research and write the … Read more
Jamaica is planning to ask the United Kingdom for compensation for the Atlantic slave trade in the former British colony, a senior government official said. The Caribbean island nation will file a petition that could seek billions of pounds in reparations, pending legal advice, Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s minister of sports, youth and culture, said. ‘We are … Read more
Johnny Cash’s first wife was black and her great-great grandmother a slave, it has emerged – shocking the Cash family, and providing a dramatic posthumous twist to her remarkable story. Vivian Liberto died in 2005 at the age of 71, believing she was of mixed Italian and German ancestry. The daughter of a father of … Read more
Johnny Cash’s first wife was black and her great-great grandmother a slave, it has emerged – shocking the Cash family, and providing a dramatic posthumous twist to her remarkable story. Vivian Liberto died in 2005 at the age of 71, believing she was of mixed Italian and German ancestry. The daughter of a father of … Read more
A £19,000-a-year private girls prep school has decided to rename its sports hall after it was revealed the family it was named after had links to the slave trade. Wimbledon High School in Merton, south west London, is planning on dropping the name Draxmont because of the family’s association with a slave plantation owner who … Read more
A £19,000-a-year private girls prep school has decided to rename its sports hall after it was revealed the family it was named after had links to the slave trade. Wimbledon High School in Merton, south west London, is planning on dropping the name Draxmont because of the family’s association with a slave plantation owner who … Read more
Woke students have forced Liverpool University to rebrand an accommodation block named after William Gladstone because of his family’s links to slavery. Gladstone Halls will be renamed after racial inequality campaigner Dorothy Kuya, who was the city’s first community slavery officer. But the move has caused fury among members of the faculty, with politics professor Dr … Read more
Woke students have forced Liverpool University to rebrand an accommodation block named after William Gladstone because of his family’s links to slavery. Gladstone Halls will be renamed after racial inequality campaigner Dorothy Kuya, who was the city’s first community slavery officer. But the move has caused fury among members of the faculty, with politics professor Dr … Read more
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are to be relabelled in the British Library to explain how it once came to be owned by a slave-trading family. The relabelling of the collection is part of the institution’s ‘anti-racism action plan’ which was put in place after the Black Lives Matter protests last year, internal documents seen by The … Read more
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are to be relabelled in the British Library to explain how it once came to be owned by a slave-trading family. The relabelling of the collection is part of the institution’s ‘anti-racism action plan’ which was put in place after the Black Lives Matter protests last year, internal documents seen by The … Read more