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Emancipation 2024 was a very eventful occasion ... May the Guyana Times and Guyana Chronicle have the decency to print my letters. They have not printed the previous two. May I ask why?
click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document ... The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and ...
Every August 1 Emancipation Day we honour the freeing of our African ancestors from the bondage of enslavement. On August 1, 1990, however, Emancipation Day took on additional meaning when a large ...
Speranza Gonzalez was a runaway — from her mother, from foster homes, from law enforcement — until she met Lakita Williams with Beyond Emancipation, an Oakland-based foster youth program ...
The film-maker’s insistence on the invisibilisation of Dalit perspectives and addressing lived experience compels a dialogue on emancipation against cooptation and to rethink who must critique, why, ...
As we gathered to celebrate Emancipation Day on August 1, I was filled with immense pride and gratitude. On that day we honoured the strength and resilience of our ancestors, who fought tirelessly ...