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How ‘Kindred’ brought Octavia Butler’s time travel and slavery story to FX

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Actress Mallori Johnson first encountered the work of writer Octavia Butler when she read “Fledgling,” a novel about a young Black vampire. It was the summer before she left home for the Julliard School in New York City.

The Orange County Register

Congress votes to remove a bust of the Dred Scott decision's author from the Capitol

The bill calls for replacing the bust of former Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the decision upholding slavery, with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to serve on the high court.

WEKU

Benin is building a themed park to remember slavery - is history up for sale?

The Marina Project is a vast memorial and tourist complex under construction in Ouidah, a coastal town in the Republic of Benin in West Africa. The country hopes to market itself as a major destination for Afro-descendant tourists in the diaspora. Neighbouring Nigeria and its population of 220 million potential…

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US House votes to remove bust of judge who wrote Dred Scott decision defending slavery

Supreme court justice Roger Taney wrote 1857 decision justifying slavery, widely regarded as one of worst rulings in history

The Guardian - US

Council votes to study reparations for Black Bostonians

The Boston City Council has voted to form a new commission to study how it can provide reparations for and other forms of atonement to Black Bostonians for the city's role in slavery and its legacy of inequality

The Independent UK

‘Why do we have to see that?’: Willow Smith reacts as father Will brings out real-life slavery devices on Red Table Talk

Will Smith stars as newly freed slave Peter in historical thriller ‘Emancipation’

The Independent UK

As a Black American, I say the UK needs new thinking on race. The royals could lead that

The monarchy’s link to slavery is glossed over in Britain. William and Harry have a chance to do better, says author and academic Keith Magee

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Netherlands set to formally apologise for 250 years of slavery

The apology is expected to redress how the Dutch exploited more than 600,000 people.

Al Jazeera

Rishi Sunak: I’ll clear asylum backlog by 2023

Rishi Sunak did something unusual today. Not the ‘sounding tough on immigration’ thing that politicians of all stripes do, with varying degrees of enthusiasm. He volunteered a target and a date.

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak’s immigration announcement in full

The Independent UK

How poetry can help address the climate crisis

I want to leap up at the three-nation parley In Whitehorse, Yukon, to warn them the radionuclides absorbed from the lichen they live on may kill them if they don’t drown in droves in crossings flooded out by hydroelectric stations, or slowly starve to death behind oil pipelines that posit…

The Conversation

Study on how the Highlands benefitted from slavery is named Scottish Book of the Year

DAVID Alston’s Slaves And Highlanders: Silenced Histories Of Scotland And The Caribbean was named as Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year at…

The National (Scotland)

NYC Mayor Adams backs renewed push for reparations bill in Albany

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams expressed support Thursday for an effort in Albany to lay the groundwork for Black New Yorkers to receive reparations for slavery — saying specific attention should be paid to still-existing companies that benefited from slave labor.

Tribune News Service

‘Someone will get whipped – the white men’: the amazing period drama that rewrites stories of slavery

Part whodunnit, part queer romance tale, The Confessions of Frannie Langton is subverting the genre. Its writer and star explain a dark, twisted drama – and its route to murder

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SkyCity Adelaide casino accepted bags of 'soiled' cash, court documents allege

Documents submitted to the Federal Court as part of anti-money laundering proceedings contain details about casino customers allegedly linked to organised crime, human trafficking and sex slavery.

The Guardian - US

Emancipation: the true story behind Will Smith’s slavery drama

The Oscar-winner’s much-anticipated new Apple movie follows an enslaved man fighting for his freedom

Reuters

Dutch King orders investigation into the royals' colonial past

Dutch King Willem-Alexander has commissioned an independent research into the role of the royal family in the colonial past of the Netherlands, the Dutch government's information service (RVD) said on Tuesday.

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Plaque commemorating end of slavery in Scotland unveiled in Edinburgh

A PLAQUE commemorating the end to the legal support of slavery in Scots law has been unveiled in Edinburgh.

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The Guardian - UK

Dutch wrestle with national apology for 250 years of slavery

Advocates claim it will promote equality, detractors say it will be an empty gesture

The Independent UK

Descendants of slaves in California could receive $200,000 in reparations

The panel estimates the state’s total payout for reparations to be nearly $570bn

The Guardian - UK

Will Smith begins road to redemption with Oscar-tipped slavery drama

Emancipation premiered to gushing reviews for the actor whose infamous slap left his reputation in tatters. Is the comeback on?

Evening Standard

Modern slavery blitz on London embassies

Exclusive: Law set to be tightened to safeguard rights of diplomats’ chefs, nannies and cleaners

Los Angeles Times

After the Slap, can Will Smith’s ‘Emancipation’ get Oscar love?

LOS ANGELES — When Will Smith took the stage Wednesday night at Westwood’s Village Theatre to introduce his new slavery thriller “Emancipation,” the nearly full house cheered and took out their phones to capture the moment. The actor had just finished striding the premiere’s red carpet, flashing his thousand-megawatt smile…

Los Angeles Times

Review: 'Emancipation,' with Will Smith, struggles to do its real-life survival story justice

In March 1863, two months after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a Black man known as Peter (other accounts name him as Gordon) escaped a Louisiana plantation, endured 10 days in alligator-infested marshes and found his way to Baton Rouge, where he received medical attention and soon enlisted…

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Emancipation’ a decent action film that could have been so much more

Will Smith sticks to Movie Star mode as a family man dodging hunters, bullets, a gator and a snake while fleeing slavery.

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