Guardian food app | Micro-mass | Modest Michelle | Wimbledon’s slave links | Disappearing S-words I recently had a bicycle accident that resulted in a broken leg. My partner prepared a “lai...
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/apr/28/feast-app-brings-joy-after-my-bike-accident
President advocated ‘paying the costs’ of colonial-era crimes but government says focus is on deepening international cooperation The Portuguese government has dismissed suggestions from th...
In a new book, Robert KD Colby of the University of Mississippi shows how the Confederacy remained committed to slavery While the civil war is associated with the end of slavery in the US, the ...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/28/robert-colby-unholy-traffic-slave-trade-civil-war
For years, Rule, Britannia! has had a divisive presence in the festival. It should make way for other anthems of national identity Here we go again: Britannia will continue to rule at the Last ...
Broadcaster Richie Brave, whose ancestors were enslaved, says organisers should be ‘asking themselves some questions’ The Radio 1Xtra host Richie Brave has said the Booker prize should cons...
Government U-turn as PM Mia Mottley acknowledges anger from reparations movement over plan to buy Barbados land from Dorset MP Richard Drax The prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has halt...
Critics of Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa say behind remarks is lack of national recognition that slavery should be discussed in schools Portugal needs to “pay the costs” of slavery and other colo...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/portugal-pay-costs-slavery-colonialism-president
Readers respond to the business secretary’s claim that the UK’s wealth is not connected to its colonial history or the slave trade Your article quotes the business secretary, Kemi Badenoch,...
Former UK diplomat TIM COLE calls for a radical reset of UK foreign policy based on honesty and respect David Lammy says the UK needs a refreshed foreign policy based on “progressive realism�...
Prof Corinne Fowler’s report into colonial history sparked a furore about ‘wokeness’ and heritage. We join her on one of the routes from her new book of rural walks that highlight how all o...
Sunn m’Cheaux and Akua Page teach Gullah language and culture from juvenile incarceration facilities to Harvard In 2019, Akua Page was invited to a juvenile incarceration facility in Richland...
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/apr/20/preserving-gullah-geechee-language
Caribbean historians want Richard Drax to pay reparations – but now Barbados plans to buy his land for homes The Conservative MP under fire for his ancestors’ role in Caribbean slavery is i...
The Royal Academy is examining the part it has played in Britain’s history of slavery and empire – and the usual carping suspects will not be pleased Very recent visitors from Mars may not ...
As the author of a book about a pivotal uprising in 18th-century Jamaica, Vincent Brown was enlisted in a campaign to make its leader a national hero. But when he arrived in Jamaica, he started t...
Minister told London conference that Glorious Revolution of 1688 paved way for economic certainty It would be wrong to attribute the UK’s wealth and economic success to its colonial history o...
Percival Everett’s gleeful reboot of Mark Twain puts the enslaved Jim centre stage in a horrifying, painful and funny novel For most of his prolific, 40-year career, Percival Everett has bee...
From Puerta del Sol plaza in Madrid to the Tuileries Garden in Paris, guides reshape stories continent tells about itself Dodging between throngs of tourists and workers on their lunch breaks i...
DR RICHARD CARTER says London was at the heart of the system, AUSTEN LYNCH points out the shame cast on our history and GARY CORNWELL argues that the trade only ended because capitalism found it ...
Fantasies about British exceptionalism have brought the UK to the brink of collapse. We need a new, realistic vision Britain’s economic and social challenges are now so monumental that they r...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/conservatism-failure-britain-future-uk
God’s Ghostwriters by Candida Moss aims to shine a light on the contributions to Christianity by imprisoned workers Enslaved people wrote the Bible, carried the messages of the apostles and s...