We have just celebrated our younger daughter’s 25th birthday. The high point was a ‘Zoom disco’ in which absent family and friends joined Domenica as she danced exuberantly to the soundtrack she had compiled and choreographed herself. She was, of course, the star of the show. For me, this joyful day was also tinged with … Read more
National Trust vows to highlight its properties’ links to slavery as bosses bring in colonialism expert after Black Lives Matter ‘watershed moment’ National Trust is set to inform the public about their locations’ colonial history Dr Corinne Fowler has been tasked with examining UK’s ‘Colonial Countryside’ Says visitors will be made aware of the exploitation that … Read more
The mindset created during the years of British slavery in the West Indies, when black people were unfairly described as inferior to white people, still, I believe, sadly persists in many today. For example, last year, after arriving at an important organisation in Edinburgh to give a lecture, I was stopped by the door attendant … Read more
Black Lives Matter activists are calling for the removal of 60 statues of slave owners and racists across Britain. Top of their target list is the statue of Cecil Rhodes and petitions also exist to remove the statue of slave-trading West India Docks founder Robert Milligan, and the statue of former Home Secretary Henry Dundas … Read more
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer today said a statue of a slave trader in Bristol which was pulled down during protests yesterday should have been removed ‘with consent’ and placed in a museum. Sir Keir said the statue of Edward Colston should have been taken down ‘a long, long time ago’. But he argued it … Read more
‘Human slavery’ victim, 43, dies after huge fire breaks out at cannabis factory in Birmingham where he was being ‘held against his will’ Another in his 20s was saved from blaze and has been discharged from hospital It is believed that both men were trafficked to the United Kingdom from abroad West Midlands Police said the … Read more
BT probes claims equipment supplier Huawei has been linked to modern slavery in China By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:18 GMT, 3 March 2020 | Updated: 23:18 GMT, 3 March 2020 BT is probing claims that controversial equipment supplier Huawei has been linked to slavery in China. The telecoms giant’s probe comes … Read more
The role slavery and cheap labour played in the foundation and vast wealth of the British Empire has been highlighted by a New York museum. New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has redesigned its British galleries to illustrate how cultural traditions that sprang from the empire fitted alongside opulent wealth amassed from slave labour. The renovation … Read more