Posts Tagged ‘Slavery’
‘Such an honour’: Family and friends of late basketball star celebrate park renaming
Joe White, a former player and coach who passed away in 2002, has been memorialised in Hoxton
Read More‘Face our shared history with honesty’: Hackney to play host to major art initiative on transatlantic slave trade
The World Reimagined will create educational walking trails featuring works by high-profile artists
Read MoreFamily and friends gather to celebrate community stalwart Kit Crowley at the garden that now bears her name
The garden was the first to receive a new moniker through a Town Hall project to reclaim places linked to slavery
Read MoreCampaigners ramp up museum boycott with calls for teachers and families to join them until slaver statue is removed
National Education Union representative backs protesters in battle against Museum of the Home at an event in Newington Green
Read MoreOldhill School celebrates its new name and logo with kite-flying day – as another local link to slavery is excised
The school was formerly know as Tyssen after a 17th-century slave owner who bought up land in Hackney
Read MoreMuseum of the Home’s decision to keep Robert Geffrye statue sees swift backlash
Campaigners call for boycott following announcement Museum aims to ‘reinterpret and contextualise the statue where it is’
Read MoreIndependent candidate Vernon Williams would build 500 homeless chalets on parks as Hackney Mayor
‘People are basically being treated as disposable peasants’
Read MoreHackney Quakers make amends for disowning radical anti-slavery dwarf 300 years ago
North London branch hoping to ‘resuscitate the memory’ of revolutionary abolitionist Benjamin Lay
Read MoreSlave’s Lament – an art film with "raw immediacy" from Mile End auteur
A Robert Burns song is given a reggae makeover in a film by Matt’s Gallery artist Graham Fagen
Read MoreSlavery claim women to receive payout from the Metropolitan police
Four awarded total of £20,000 after high court judge rules their allegations were not properly investigated
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