David Lammy, the UK Foreign Secretary, is on a visit to Nigeria and South Africa this week. He’s there to strengthen the UK’s trade relations with African countries and to talk about the past mistakes of British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. Just a week ago, leaders from 56
Buckingham Palace said the royal family would support an independent research project looking into whether British royals were involved in slavery during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by allowing access to the Royal Collection and the Royal Archives.
For numerous years, prominent technology corporations such as Apple and Tesla have proclaimed to their stylish store and showroom customers that their products are morally sourced and marketed. Here’s the actual truth about Congolese cobalt mines from where iPhones and Teslas come from.
Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and chair of the Church Commissioners, and the Church of England apologized for the slave trade in the past and set up a £100 million fund.
In California, a task force was established to develop suggestions for reparations for slavery. Now, the descendants of slaves in California are set to receive $223,200 each in slavery reparations.
According to a report conducted by the UN agencies for labour and migration and the Walk Free Foundation, 50 million people are still stuck in modern slavery, either as forced labour or forced marriage.
The Jamaican government is set to demand billions of pounds in reparations over the slave trade, and will send a petition directly to the Queen from the country’s attorney general in order to initiate the request.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been caught promoting child labour in an opinion piece in The Guardian titled “Child labour doesn’t have to be exploitation – it gave me life skills”. Soon after it was reported widely, The Guardian removed mention of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funding the
As the presidential buzz continues to grow around the candidacy of California Senator Kamala Harris, interest is also growing around her little-known Jamaican heritage. It is believed that the ancestor of Kamala Harris was the infamous white slave owner in Jamaica, Hamilton Brown. Although fact-checkers have already branded it as
