Three cheers for juries
With attorney general Suella Braverman threatening to use extraordinary measures and a deafening silence coming from Labour’s front bench, Paul Demarty unhesitatingly welcomes the acquittal of the Colston Four
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With attorney general Suella Braverman threatening to use extraordinary measures and a deafening silence coming from Labour’s front bench, Paul Demarty unhesitatingly welcomes the acquittal of the Colston Four
None of the island’s governments have been able to redress British imperialism’s legacy of underdevelopment, dependency and above all economic hardship and social inequality.
COS Indigenous Peoples' Day endorsement Community Organized for Solidarity The members of Community Organized for Solidarity support the petition addressed to Select Board Chair Roy Epstein to officially change the name from “Columbus Day” to “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” in the town of Belmont. On Jan. 29, members of COS discussed the following reasons why we adamantly support this change: • Celebrating Columbus Day contributes to the miseducation of the Belmont community because it ignores the genocide and enslavement of native peoples at the hands of white settlers like Christopher...
Rhode Island Rescues Photograph by Gavin Ashworth. All photographs courtesy of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island. The story of the Preservation Society begins with the mission to rescue Hunter House (Fig. 1) and the question put to financier George Henry Warren Jr. after its purchase by his wife, Katherine Warren: “Well, you’ve got this house, now what are you going to do with it?” In 1945, Newport stone carver John Howard Benson became alarmed that Hunter House—a rare surviving waterfront property with deep ties to Newport’s history—might be irretr...
Augusta’s Cony High School to offer African American studies class next academic year The class will be taught by T.J. Maines, starting with African history before the beginning of the United States and ending with the Black Lives Matter movement. Share AUGUSTA — Next year, juniors and seniors at Cony High School will have the option to take a new course that focuses on African-American history. The idea for the class was proposed at the Augusta school board’s Dec. 9 Curriculum and Education Committee meeting, and approved by the full board Wednesday. The class was noted Wednesday at b...