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Benedict Cumberbatch’s family slavery ties
Final Preventing Championship boss Dana White, who fired a fighter for beating up a girlfriend, is in bother for hitting…
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Jamaican migrant workers in Ontario pen open letter likening conditions to ‘systematic slavery’
Jamaican migrant farm employees in Niagara Area wrote an open letter to Jamaica’s Ministry of Labour requesting extra assist within the…
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‘A specific form of anti-Black racism’: Scholars demand Canadian apology for slavery
Greater than a 12 months after Canada proclaimed Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day, Black leaders and students are renewing their…
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Canada
Reflections, impacts of slavery shared at Manitoba’s first official Emancipation Day event
Winnipeggers gathered on the St. Norbert Arts Centre on Monday to mark the creation of laws that abolished slavery in Canada 188 years…
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Canada
It’s time for Canada to apologize for slavery, says N.S. senator
In each speech Nova Scotia Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard makes for Emancipation Day this yr, she’ll ask the identical query: what’s…
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‘A specific form of anti-Black racism:’ Scholars want Canadian apology for slavery
Emancipation Day acknowledges the day in 1834 that the Slavery Abolition Act got here into drive, thus ending slavery in…
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Arts
Slavery and the History of Art – RisePEI
AT THE END OF 2021, the Nationwide Gallery in London revealed preliminary findings from an inquiry into its ties to…
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Horrors of slavery should be taught alongside Holocaust, says Prince Charles | News
The Prince of Wales desires slavery to be publicly acknowledged, taught in colleges and given the identical nationwide stage of…
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Canada
UN group to learn of Nova Scotia’s history of slavery during RisePEI meeting
The worldwide scientific committee of UNESCO’s Roots of Enslaved Peoples Mission is holding its biennial assembly in RisePEI from June…
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Canada
New Heritage Minutes video shines light on history of slavery in Ontario
The newest Heritage Minute highlights Canada’s historical past of slavery and the trail that led to its eventual demise — a narrative that…
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