In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

The answer is the huge body of servants and staff past and present who feed and clothe the royals, organize their days, polish their shoes, carry the deer and pheasants they shoot, and even put ...

One of those is Bunce Island. Located around 20 miles up the Sierra Leone River from Freetown, Bunce Island was once a key location in the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1670 and 1808 ...

But for two decades in the 1700s, Great Britain controlled the region, and archeologists have finally found some of their long-sought-after footprints. City archeologists identified a dry moat ...

William Carey as the “Father of Modern Missions” started the movement, under God, which was to make Christianity a truly global faith. His wide concept of mission embraced preaching, social, ...

Costs incurred on these cards, for which civil servants will now have to reapply, had quadrupled in four years, jumping from £155 million in 2020-21 to £675 million in 2024-25.

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

A 2022 enquiry into the ‘legacies of enslavement’ found that the University of Cambridge was financially involved in the slave trade ... House of Commons in the 1700s to outlaw the practice.

Trump’s support for closer symbolic ties to the monarchy comes as his policies continue to draw fire, including signing sweeping executive orders rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ...

Andrew Stanton is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in Maine. His role is reporting on U.S. politics and social issues. Andrew joined Newsweek in 2021 from The Boston Globe. He is a graduate of ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

At the bottom of the wealth spectrum is BJP MLA Nirmal Kumar Dhara from Indus, West Bengal, whose declared assets amount to just Rs 1,700. Among the richest MLAs, notable figures include ...