Board chairman Gene Hickok, who had driven the split with the MDC, is stepping down as his term comes to a close. Advertisement “ I am very pleased that the goal of parity has been achieved and that the Foundation has added such distinguished new members to its Board.... I wish the Board every success in moving ahead for Montpelier’s benefit, ” Hickok said in a written statement. The new members include TV journalist Soledad O’Brien and Harvard professor and former NAACP chief the Rev.... But

GEORGE TOWN: Looking for better job opportunities, two youths were lured by their friend to work in Thailand and are now believed to be victims of a job scam. They were allegedly working for a China syndicate for more than 16 hours a day without off days. The youths will now have to pay a certain amount of money to the syndicate in order for them to be released.A 49-year-old housewife, known as Por, said her 20-year-old son had not been home since he left for Thailand in July 2021.“ My son, who

Every October for seven years, the Rev.... “ But look where we are.” In 2017, after years of activism, the real estate firm Toll Brothers donated the 2.75 acres of land where the cemetery is situated to the Freedom Center.... The group cleaned up the place with help from community members, including a local Boy Scout, Mikaeel Martinez Jaka, who in 2018 and 2019 led volunteers to pave a gravel path that led through the woods and past the sites with noticeable grave markers. Over time, more peop

JAKARTA, Indonesia— Sri Siti Marni was 11 years old when her aunt introduced her to a wealthy acquaintance from Jakarta who promised to take her in and pay for her schooling.It was a generous offer, delivered unexpectedly.... Marni, his eldest, had no hope of a better life without continuing her education. Marni packed clothes and hijabs and left her hometown of Bogor, on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital.... Marni felt like she was going on a long vacation. But as the months passed, Mus

were skilled before they were enslaved.... And, in many cases, enslavers sought and purchased people

in South Carolina, it becomes a new site of homecoming and pilgrimage for descendants of enslaved

President Donald Trump, pushing toward the 2020 election, announced a group to develop history standards that would be a counterpoint to the Times’s effort.... But CRT was a useful stalking horse for the right, allowing it to leverage lingering pandemic-related hostility toward schools to accuse the left of indoctrination and Marxism, all wrapped in a package of White resentment.In early 2021, Florida Gov.... Ron DeSantis( R) — already clearly thinking about the 2024 Republican presidential no

destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, the enslavement of Africans

instructing students to learn that enslaved people “ developed skills ” that could be “ applied for personal

The county’s Josiah Henson Museum and Park stands on Old Georgetown Road, just south of the parkway. Henson’s 1849 autobiography inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s popular 1852 novel, “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ” credited with building support for the anti-slavery movement before the Civil War.... The board approved her request unanimously. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement “ He was an absolutely remarkable human being and is someone who is locally, regionally, nationally and internatio