Slavery

Banking

Boots says it will ‘draw lessons’ from research into links to slavery

The high-street pharmacy Boots’s links to the transatlantic slave trade have been revealed in new research that shows how the proceeds of enslavement became entangled with British capitalism.Jesse Boot,...
Africa

Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey appointed Commonwealth secretary general

Commonwealth members have appointed Ghana’s foreign minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, as the new secretary general, on the final...
Activism

Solidarity from Solitary

This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for...
Economics

Blame modern decisions, not just ancient history, for economic inequality | Torsten Bell

Persistence studies are all the rage in economics – using clever maths to show that events in the...

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