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Slavery

July 2024

  • A detail from Hew Locke’s 2-metre-tall collage depicts a line of wooden houses on a hill, with imagery of trees and greenery, stitched-together materials, and, in the background, what appears to be dollar bills and stamps relating to the rubber industry and slave debentures

    ‘A live issue’: Hew Locke’s new work referencing slavery displayed in London

    British-Guyanese sculptor’s collage to be unveiled at British Academy with British Museum show in October
  • Array of sculptures in the gallery

    ‘We want to ruffle a few feathers’: Liverpool gallery confronts colonial past

    Walker Art Gallery replaces Tinted Venus with sculpture of black child to explore links to slavery and empire
  • Red swirling tentacles … split obliteration 2024, Dominique White, from Dominique White: Deadweight at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

    Dominique White: Deadweight review – a beautiful, twisted sea monster

    Woven throughout this compelling collection of sculptures from the Max Mara prizewinner is a ferrous thread of hooks and spikes that drags the cruel history of slavery to the surface

June 2024

  • brick building with three rows of windows in the city

    Public artwork reframes US history of enslavement through Jefferson’s valet

  • A flag, in the pattern of the American flag, with green and red stripes, rainbow stars, and the word Juneteenth in yellow in the center.

    As Juneteenth grows in US, southern states cling to Confederate holidays

  • A house built to be dismantled quickly … Under the skin of the ocean, the thing urges us up wild, by Whittle.

    Wild ting: why a chattel house now sits on a manicured Scottish lawn

  • M Dores Cruz, center, and her team carry out an archaeological dig on Sao Tome in 2023.

    Our unequal earth
    White gold, Black bodies: how a tiny African nation shaped the world

  • Why I was the right person to deliver the United Reformed Church’s slavery apology

  • America's dirty divide
    New York City Audubon changes name to distance itself from racist namesake

  • Rise of far right makes reparations debate tough, says Cape Verde president

  • Will the Anglican church come clean and pay its debt over slavery? Not from what we have seen so far

    Robert Beckford

May 2024

  • A clamour of touches, moods and modes … Grace by Alvaro Barrington, standing front.

    Alvaro Barrington: Grace review – church pews, chains and a carnival queen

  • A view from the classical portico of Codrington College, which was established on the sugar plantation formerly owned by the Church of England’s missionary arm.

    Beatings, brandings, suicides: life on plantations owned by Church of England missionary arm

  • Codrington College, an Anglican theological college in St John, Barbados.

    Revealed: how Church of England’s ties to chattel slavery went to top of hierarchy

  • Seems to contain two plays at the same time … l to r, Keziah Joseph (Cerys), Nia Roberts (Elizabeth) and Suzanne Packer (Annie) in The Women of Llanrumney.

    The Women of Llanrumney review – blistering dissection of slavery as the sugar crop fails

  • Free Church of Scotland under fire for failure to apologise over slavery money

  • Beyoncé’s display of the American flag raises questions for Black people

    Derecka Purnell

  • Magdalene Odundo review – quietly devastating defiance in an English stately home

  • ‘It’s deeper than slavery’: Lisbon street project reclaims Portugal’s unseen black history

  • Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two public schools

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