NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor on Wednesday posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy, the Black man whose arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only railroad car in 1892 led to the Supreme Court ruling that cemented “separate but equal” into U.S. law for half a century.
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MONTEGO BAY, December 26, 2021 - As we get ready to commemorate the 190th anniversary of the Sam Sharpe War which began just after the Christmas festivities on the 27th...
An ecclesiastical court is expected to meet early February, to deliberate over a decision by the of University of Cambridge, to remove a memorial located in the Jesus college chapel,...
LONDON, England, December 14, 2021 - UK Home Secretary Priti Patel is facing legal action for the failure of the Windrush Compensation Scheme to pay victims – with just five...
WASHINGTON DC, December 7, 2021 - Yet another effort is being made to have the president of the United States grant a pardon for one of Jamaica’s National Heroes, The...
I look at nude bodies all the time in my work. Art history is full of them – painted, sculpted and photographed – and they fill the walls of galleries...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nov. 30, 2021 - International superstar and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, with specific responsibility for promoting education, tourism and investment, Robyn Rihanna Fenty, has been named the 11th...
PARIS (AP) — France is inducting Josephine Baker — Missouri-born cabaret dancer, French World War II spy and civil rights activist — into its Pantheon, the first Black woman honored...
FOR several years now, beginning around the year 1975 when Sam Sharpe, the leader of the 1831-32 Rebellion, was declared a national hero, pilgrimages have been made to Kensington Estate...
UNITED STATES, November 11, 2021 AP - For Veterans Day, a group of Democratic lawmakers is reviving an effort to pay the families of Black service members who fought on...