In this month’s newsletter: for Caribbean scholars, the evidence of how deeply slavery shaped Britain’s wealth has never been in doubt. Plus, heritage walks in Manchester

A critical analysis of African Americans’ collective efforts to obtain educational equality before Brown v. Board of Education.   The landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, which barred racial se...

Pioneering historian who transformed the study of Africa by seeking out the testimonies of Africans

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Teaching about the British Empire, migration, and belonging: A research-led strategy for secondary education in England reports findings from the Portrait EMB project, a national study of teaching pra...

Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.

Newsom vetoed a bill that would have given Native tribes greater say on decisions about water. One tribal leader said it shows he "doesn't care about tribes."

Lecture Given to the Association of Commonwealth Journalists, 24 Nov 2025 Alan Lester Professor of Historical Geography University of Sussex Introduction[1] Reparations are ‘a commitment to acknowl…

Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London

Regarded as one of England’s ‘Treasure Houses’, Harewood House’s history, like most prominent British institutions, is closely linked to slavery and colonialism.

White Minority Rule in Rhodesia Reexamined: Urgent Lessons from the Past

Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.

24 September (Thursday)

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

Published in 1807, the Slave Bible was a distortion of Christianity that remains the Church of England’s guilty secret

A decade after Kaepernick’s quiet protest shook the NFL, his exile looks less like an aberration than a blueprint for the culture war that followed

For decades, swimming ability has been lower in the black community. Our writer asks why.

Black anti-fascists have long warned about creeping fascism, from slavery to mass incarceration to ICE terror.

Why Indigenous resistance is central to the fight against white supremacy.

Index to family trees of people enslaved by John Tharp of Chippenham Park, Cambridgeshire, on his estates in Trelawny, St Ann & Westmoreland, Jamaica

Elsevier’s International Journal of Biological Macromolecules has issued more than 100 retractions and counting for manipulated peer review in guest-edited special issues. The publisher has said on…

He had been born to a British mother and West African father in Rochford, Essex in 1937 and was determined to confront the racism he’d encountered both

Embedded in the lived experiences of Survivors and supported by the evidentiary record, Truth Before Reconciliation is a valuable tool to help develop the historical and information literacy needed to...

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Quakers have committed to making practical reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and economic exploitation. This page offers some resources to help meetings think about this work.