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The College Board says changes will be made to its new AP African American studies course, after critics said the agency bowed to political pressure and removed several topics from the framework, including the Black Lives Matter and slavery reparations movements

Academics are working with a team of researchers to trawl historical archives to build a picture of the university’s involvement in Atlantic slavery and colonialism

The College Board has announced changes will be made to the new AP African American course amid criticism in February that the agency bowed to political pressure and removed several topics from the framework, including Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer life

The campaigning body ‘Heirs of Slavery’ has called for British institutions to recognise their role in the slave trade

Heirs of Slavery body wants restorative justice to tackle ‘ongoing consequences of this crime against humanity’

Families like mine have listened to the descendants of enslaved people. Today we launch a lobbying group, Heirs of Slavery, says author and campaigner Alex Renton

As for a fourth season, despite offering hypothetical storylines, Justin Young says, "It's never going to happen"

The ships that adorn the badges of both Manchester clubs are a reminder of the city’s links to slavery and must go, says editor of the Voice Lester Holloway

Other lives: Reader in history at Warwick University who specialised in writing about American slavery

As we reckon with the UK’s colonial past, we need to examine the history behind valuable books – even our beloved Shakespeare

It’s ten years since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza building near Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed at least 1,132 garment workers and injured several thousand more. The collapse of the eight-storey building on April 24 2013, which housed five factories making clothes for western high street brands like Accessorize,…