Reading Time: 3 minutes We can all find purpose in accepting responsibility for historical wrongs
Tag: Slavery
Slavery is not just a black and white issue
Reading Time: 4 minutes Every ethnic group has practiced slavery and been enslaved
Haiti is poor and unstable because Western powers have made it that way
Reading Time: 3 minutes Haiti’s efforts toward self-determination have been almost constantly undermined by foreign intervention
Most of the criticism of Qatar World Cup is hypocritical
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to courageously start to address the injustices in our own countries
Seeking truth is not a competition
Reading Time: 3 minutes CNN’s Don Lemon got a history lesson on slavery recently. But it does not negate the need for the Royal Family to pay reparations
Elizabeth II had the poise to navigate the cesspool of colonialism
Reading Time: 3 minutes The British Empire enslaved human beings, destroyed functioning states, destroyed economies, and imprisoned and killed countless people
Why Canada should be celebrated, not trashed
Reading Time: 3 minutes Don’t let utopian perfectionists stop you from celebrating a tremendous accomplishment: Canada
We need to confront the history of slavery in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s very easy for Canadians to look self-righteously at Americans and claim the higher moral ground. But it’s not necessarily true
Facing up to the harsh truth about the Islamic State
Reading Time: 2 minutes The IS brand of Islam institutionalizes sexism, misogyny, homophobia, racism, sectarianism and slavery. It’s a barbaric credo
West complicit in North Korea’s 21st-century slave trade
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hundreds of thousands of World Cup soccer fans will buy tickets to sit in stadiums being built in Russia and Qatar with slave labour