DAKAR, Senegal, Apr 22 2025 (IPS) - Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to ...

Dakar, Senegal — Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and ...

UNITED NATIONS — The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ago that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica ...

And former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan says she learned after records of Britain's Slave Compensation Commission were put online in 2013 that her ancestor Sir John Trevelyan owned sugar cane ...

(WJXT) Young used words from advertisements and notices that described at least 100 different runaway slaves in the 1800s to create portraits of what she believed the people might have looked like.

The 78th edition of the Tour de Romandie the WorldTour peloton to Switzerland for six days of racing in 2025. When the event launched in 1947, there were four days of racing. It was elevated to ...

At the meeting of descendants of enslaved people and slave owners on Tuesday, Trevelyan spoke of her family’s decision to apologize to Grenada and to make a contribution of 100,000 British ...

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This undated photo provided by Gabrielle Blackwood shows moderator Laura Trevelyan during a meeting of descendants of slave owners and slaves in former British colonies in the Caribbean at U.N ...