Last week, the Florida State Senate passed controversial legislation banning curriculum teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity in children from kindergarten through third grade. Teachers should also not talk about these topics to older children and young people in a way that is “inappropriate for the age of the students”. The law is now … Read more
US President Abraham Lincoln (in top hat) at the headquarters of the Union Army in 1862 Foto: Apple TV+/Library of Congress – — Was the slave liberator Abraham Lincoln a great president or a hypocrite? The documentary series “Lincoln’s Dilemma” on Apple TV+ gives a fair picture of a man caught between ideals and realities. … Read more
The soul of America’s last African slaves rests here in Africatown, Alabama. The Old Plateau Cemetery houses the graves of men and women who were part of the last “freighter” of slaves arriving in the United States on July 8, 1860. New research on the wreck of the ship, the last slave ship to have … Read more
Published on : 17/01/2022 – 16:29Modified : 17/01/2022 – 16:32 – Like every year, on this third Monday of January, Americans celebrate Martin Luther King Day. The day is a holiday to commemorate the birth of the icon of the struggle for civil rights. His fight seems today more than ever to reason with the … Read more
Dallas – Controversy over one of the greatest hits of the British rock band Rolling Stones: The rock legends are foregoing their hit “Brown Sugar” (1971) on their current US tour – because critics believe that it is racist, sexist and an attack on black women. The band had already indicated in mid-October that they … Read more
Published on : 26/10/2021 – 23:48 – Before Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin refused to give way to white people on a bus in the segregationist South of the United States. For that, she had been arrested. This Tuesday, Claudette Colvin, now aged 82, made an official request that her criminal record be purged of any … Read more
Published on : 19/10/2021 – 10:34 – The city of New York approved on Monday the removal of the statue of one of the founding fathers of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, because of his slave past. The third American president held in his plantation in Virginia more than 600 slaves. His statue will have … Read more
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 Founding father and slave owner New York entfernt Jefferson-Statue – The US Declaration of Independence was written in part by Thomas Jefferson – a man who had hundreds of slaves. The City of New York decides that a memorial to the founding father will be removed from City Hall. The New … Read more
The monument bearing the image of one of the founding fathers of the United States, after having been enthroned for more than a century in the council chamber of the municipality, will be debunked because of its slavery past. The city of New York approved Monday, October 18 the removal of the statue of Thomas … Read more
Sexual violence, lynchings … The Legacy museum, which has just opened in Alabama, draws a direct link between the racist past of the United States and the inequalities of today. Slavery, lynchings, segregation, but also the overrepresentation of African Americans in prison and victims of police violence: a museum, open since Friday in Alabama, traces … Read more