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There is No Need for the Lord Macaulay Hoax We received a forward via social media this week claiming to be a note from someone called Lord Macaulay. Now while someone by that name did exist, nothing else about the note was true. The man in question’s full name was Thomas Babington Macaulay and he […]
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Reasons the Star Spangled Banner Should not be honoured The Star-spangled Banner is the American National Anthem. It was originally written as a poem by Francis Scott Key. Key was a slave-owner for many years and is known as saying that Africans are “a distinct and inferior race of people”. This brief video looks at
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HM Treasury Proud of Paying Slave Owners We just happened to stumble across this tweet on David Olusuga’s timeline and had to take a moment of silence to take in what was written. Essentially, HM Treasury wants the British taxpayer to feel proud for paying slave owners. Well actually, the original tweet by HM Treasury has been
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“Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe” Learn more about Langston Hughes
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“If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.”
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