Origins: Shakespeare’s First Folio
It’s 400 years since Shakespeare’s friends published his First Folio. DAVID MCINNIS, associate professor of Shakespeare and early modern drama at The University of Melbourne, looks at how it came about…
Essay: The complicated legacy of the Pilgrims is finally coming to light 400 years after they landed in Plymouth
In an article first published on The Conversation, US academic PETER C MANCALL looks at why the Pilgrim’s voyage to Plymouth has such a prominent place in the story of America…
US SLAVERY ANNIVERSARY: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, CHURCHES PART OF CITY’S 200 YEAR HISTORY OF SLAVERY, CIVIL RIGHTS
As the US marks 400 years since the arrival of the first African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia, ADELLE M BANKS reports from Alabama’s capital on the city’s historic connections with slavery – and the modern civil rights movement…
US SLAVERY ANNIVERSARY: FROM NEW YORK TO ALABAMA, BLACKS WORSHIPPED IN OWN SPACES BEFORE ABOLITION
As the US marks the 400th anniversary of the forced arrival of African slaves in Virginia, ADELLE M BANKS, writing for Religion News Service, reports on how black communities gathered in their own churches in the years before the official abolition of slavery…
Slavery history still affects blacks, half of practicing Christians say in survey
RNS Fifty per cent of practicing Christians say the history of American slavery continues to significantly affect the African American community today, a Barna study shows. A slightly smaller percentage of the general population of US adults surveyed (46 per cent) agrees that, almost 400 years after slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia, there remains […]
World Council of Churches invites member churches to commemorate 400th anniversary of the start of the Atlantic slave trade
The World Council of Churches’ executive committee has invited member churches to find opportunities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the start of the transatlantic slave trade, to ask God’s forgiveness for ancestors who were involved in the enslavement of African people and to recommit to the “struggle against racism and for racial and economic […]