by Ian Scoville Hoya Staff Writer
A group of descendants of the 272 slaves sold by Georgetown University in 1838 is seeking to establish a $1 billion foundation in partnership with the university and the Jesuits of Maryland to fund scholarships for descendants a week after University President John J. DeGioia announced they would receive an […]
A television interview by Brian Widlake on 31 May 1961 has long been considered the earliest known interview with Nelson Mandela. However, we have recently discovered a short interview recorded during a break at the 1956 Treason Trail which lasted four-and-a-half years.
Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Education, Dr Gale T. Rigobert, says Saint Lucia is proud to have officially adopted and launched the United Nations Decade for People of African Descent.
The Acting Prime Minister spoke following her presentation of an official declaration adopting the UN Decade last week, during a Colloquy on Slavery and Emancipation, […]
By Manisha Sinha
The nation was a beacon for the anti-slavery cause
CIRCA 1754: Pierre Dominique Toussaint l’Ouverture (1746-1803) Haitian revolutionary leader. Etching by John Kay 1802. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)UNESCO has chosen […]
The first ever memorial service for the victims of the transatlantic slave trade and African Holocaust was held in London’s Trafalgar Square.
By Dr. June Soomer
The Reparations Movement: “A Ragtag Collection of Racial Malcontents Marching to the Beat of Their Own Drum?”
I would like to thank the National Reparations Committee for inviting me to deliver this inaugural lecture to launch the Committee. Since I was on the inside I know what it has taken to reach this […]
Your Excellencies,
Members of the diplomatic Corps,
Distinguished guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Sisters and Brothers of St. Lucia.
Please accept my apologies for not being present at this important event but currently I’m on my way to Canada for a family funeral. However, I wish to congratulate the National Reparations Commission of St. Lucia for organizing this function and allow […]
ACS Secretary General Dr. June Soomer
Saint Lucia will take the reparations message to the rest of the Caribbean on August 17th, the anniversary of Marcus Garvey’s birthday, when one of its […]
By Kim Brunhuber
Every week or so, Ana Oliveira and Fatima Pinho meet on the rooftop deck of Oliveira’s modest home in the Rio favela of Manguinhos. They’re drawn together by the faces stenciled on a large black cloth — smiling faces of young black men. There are dates written underneath. Under her son Jonathan’s face […]
By Christopher Famous
Are we there yet?
This is a question frequently asked by persons on a journey to a place not yet known to them.
In 1834, England declared that all enslaved persons throughout the British Empire were to be set free of slavery. August 1st was to be their emancipation day.
Ah, at long last, the elusive […]
By Ben Stensall
The 1st of August marked African Emancipation Day. Thousands of people marched from Brixton to Parliament as part of an ongoing campaign for reparations to make amends for the generations of slavery that claimed the lives of millions of Africans, who ended up displaced and were forced to work to support Britain’s booming […]
by Maxwell Haywood
The story of the resilience of the former enslaved black population in St. Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG) is part of the global narrative of the resilience of people of African descent throughout the world, who experienced the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism. That heritage of resilience is becoming more vital to the […]
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