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Getting medieval: Blindboy explores Ireland's myths and legends

RTE 18 Nov 2024
In his fascinating new RTÉ One documentary The Land of Slaves and Scholars, writer and podcaster Blindboy Boatclub explores the origins, evolution and cultural legacy of early Irish Christianity.
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Authorities work to find the source of racist texts sent to Black people nationwide after ...

CNN 09 Nov 2024
Our executive slaves will pick you up in a yellow van,” the text read, using the girl’s full name, CNN affiliate WISN reported ... Enslaved people were often auctioned off and sold to other slave owners, leading to families being separated.
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UK’s top diplomat claims slavery reimbursement ‘not about cash’

MENA FN 05 Nov 2024
(MENAFN) The United Kingdom–s Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, has outlined a new approach to addressing the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, suggesting that the UK–s reparations efforts ... .
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Moves to drop

The Daily Mail 02 Nov 2024
The move comes amid an increasing reappraisal of the British Empire’s legacy, with Caribbean countries calling for the UK to pay hundreds of billions of pounds in reparations for the slave trade.Read More.
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UK treads fine line on slavery legacy, while ruling out reparations

Guam Pacific Daily News 31 Oct 2024
The Commonwealth's 56 members agreed the 'time has come' for talks about the legacy of the 'abhorrent' transatlantic slave trade in a landmark summit declaration.
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OPINION: Has Donnie Swaggart Lost His Mind? More Important, Have We?

Jacksonville Free Press 31 Oct 2024
Donnie Swaggoo causally left out the legacy of white “Christians” literally teaching and preaching that slave masters—white people who kidnapped, tortured, raped and human trafficked human beings from Africa—were God’s representatives on earth ... Menu.
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No, Robert Jenrick, former colonies do not owe a ‘debt of gratitude’ for Britain’s legacy of brutality and exploitation

The Observer 30 Oct 2024
The British empire’s legacy in the Caribbean is inseparable from the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and the plantation economies it sustained – industries built on the brutal exploitation of ...
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Listen Up: Ghost of the Machine, Lauren Norcia offer up new singles

Telegram & Gazette - Worcester 29 Oct 2024
The nameless track, produced and written the night before it was released, is a lament about enduring racism and the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, dedicated to the rapper’s father and ...
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Commonwealth agrees 'time has come' for talks on legacy of slavery

Mount Carmel Register 27 Oct 2024
The Commonwealth's 56 members agreed the "time has come" for talks about the legacy of the "abhorrent" transatlantic slave trade Saturday, in a landmark summit declaration that raised the prospect of future reparations ... .
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Commonwealth heads agree ‘time has come’ for legacy of slavery talks

Press TV 27 Oct 2024
The heads of Commonwealth countries have signed an agreement in the Samoan capital, saying the “time has come” for talks on the legacy of slavery ... Queen Elizabeth and ignominious legacy of British colonialism ... Britain's Legacy in South Asia.
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Commonwealth nations adopt their first ocean declaration

Independent Online 27 Oct 2024
While the environmental threat was foreshadowed as a predominant theme going into the summit, the transatlantic slave trade from Britain's colonial history dominated the discourse through the opening days.'A line in the sand' declaration.
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Commonwealth commits to ocean protection at summit

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 27 Oct 2024
While the environmental threat was foreshadowed as a predominant theme going into the summit, the transatlantic slave trade from Britain's colonial history dominated the discourse through the opening days.
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Commonwealth agrees ‘time has come’ for talks on legacy of slavery

Dawn 27 Oct 2024
The Commonwealth’s 56 members agreed the “time has come” for talks about the legacy of the “abhorrent” transatlantic slave trade on Saturday, in a landmark summit declaration that raised the prospect of future reparations.
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The exam that put

The Daily Mail 27 Oct 2024
In an early draft of the Declaration of Independence, one of the grievances against the King of England was his responsibility for the horrors of the slave trade ... The most enduring legacy of President ...

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