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Review: 'Emancipation,' with Will Smith, struggles to do its real-life survival story justice

In March 1863, two months after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a Black man known as Peter (other accounts name him as Gordon) escaped a Louisiana plantation, endured 10 days in alligator-infested marshes and found his way to Baton Rouge, where he received medical attention and soon enlisted…

Los Angeles Times · Dec 1, 2022

‘Emancipation’ a decent action film that could have been so much more

Will Smith sticks to Movie Star mode as a family man dodging hunters, bullets, a gator and a snake while fleeing slavery.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 1, 2022

Drug Dealers Are Now Being Charged With Human Trafficking

Plus: Chinese authorities contact protesters, smoking rates fall dramatically, and more…

Reason · Nov 29, 2022

It can be hard to distinguish the cultural claims of right and left. Just look at Qatar

Universal human rights or cultural imperialism? Divide clouds the debate over World Cup hosts

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2022

Barbados plans to make Tory MP pay reparations for family’s slave past

Richard Drax reported to have visited Caribbean island for meeting on next steps, including plans for former sugar plantation

The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2022

Slavery's ghost haunts cotton gin factory's transformation

A construction project in Alabama demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S. history in 2022

The Independent UK · Nov 22, 2022

Bristol University could rename buildings like Wills, Fry and Goldney due to links with slave trade

They are named after prominent families with connections to slavery

Bristol Post · Nov 22, 2022

After Will Smith's Oscar slap, Antoine Fuqua worried 'Emancipation' might 'never be seen'

Antoine Fuqua thought the worst was behind him.

Los Angeles Times · Nov 21, 2022

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 2023: What is the annual UN event?

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is observed annually on December 2

Evening Standard · Nov 18, 2022

Louisiana voters rejected an antislavery ballot measure. The reasons are complicated

Voters in four states — Vermont, Oregon, Alabama and Tennessee — approved antislavery ballot measures in the 2022 elections. The Louisiana amendment may have failed, in part, because of confusion.

WEKU · Nov 17, 2022