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Benin Republic Grants Citizenship To Slave Descendants As It Faces Its Own Role In The Trade

Global UpfrontDec 16, 2024December 16, 20240

By Associated Press When Nadege Anelka first came to the West African country of Benin from her home island of Martinique, a French overseas territory

U.S.: Many Wealthy Members Of Congress Are Descendants Of Rich Slaveholders − New Study Demonstrates The Enduring Legacy Of Slavery

Global UpfrontOct 24, 2024October 24, 20240

By Neil K R Sehgal & Ashwini Sehgal The legacy of slavery in America remains a divisive issue, with sharp political divides. Some argue that

Apology But No Cash Payments: California (U.S.) Reparations For Slavery Start Incrementally

Global UpfrontOct 9, 2024October 9, 20240

When a California reparations task force released a thousand-page report last year addressing the effects of systemic racism on Black residents, it made headlines with

Slavery: A Crown Branded Onto ‘Negroes’ Bodies Links British Monarchy To Slave Trade

Global UpfrontSep 29, 2023September 29, 20230

Thumbing through the tanned pages of centuries-old records in the basement of the British Library, Nicholas Radburn came across an illustration that took him aback.

U.S. Slavery: $27 Million Reparations To Be Paid To Descendants Of 272 Enslaved Black People Sold By Catholic Jesuits To Fund Georgetown University

Global UpfrontSep 21, 2023September 21, 20230

Georgetown University and the Jesuits have pledged $27 million in money and land donations to the descendants of 19th-century enslaved people who were sold to

Reparations: Slavery Made Their Ancestors Wealthy. Now They’re Making Amends

Global UpfrontAug 4, 2023August 4, 20230

By Whitney Eulich, Special Correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor When Arley Gill, head of Grenada’s National Reparations Committee, envisioned his work seeking repair for centuries

Belgium’s AfricaMuseum Confronts Its Dark Colonial And Shameful Past: It’s Making Slow Progress In Confronting This History

Global UpfrontJul 5, 2023July 5, 20230

By Julien Bobineau Racist displays and stories remain on display in several western European museums. They include grotesque objects depicting African people as “savage” and

Dutch King Apologises For Netherlands’ Historical Role In Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery

Global UpfrontJul 2, 2023July 2, 20230

Dutch King Willem-Alexander apologised for the Netherlands’ historic involvement in slavery and the effects that it still has today. The king was speaking at a

Tragedy Of An Ancestral Igbo Slave Named Melford Dokubo Goodhead Alias Asari Dolubo: A Confused, Miserable, Bankrupt And Cash n’ Carry Muslim

Global UpfrontJun 23, 2023June 23, 20230

By Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD I have great respect for such fearless and principled Niger Delta warriors as His Majesty King Ateke Tom— Amanyanabo

Sale Of 272 Blacks: The Families Enslaved By U.S. Jesuits Priests, Then Sold To Save Georgetown

Global UpfrontJun 19, 2023June 19, 20230

This is an excerpt from “The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church” by Rachel L. Swarns. Published