DAY, WILLIAM HOWARD (16 Oct. 1825-3 Dec. 1900) was an abolitionist, editor, publisher, printer, teacher, lecturer, civic leader and clergyman who devoted his life to improving the conditions of his ...

The Harrisburg Board of Control, or school board, elected William Howard Day president in October 1891. It was a historic moment in Harrisburg and beyond: Day was the city’s first Black school board ...

ABOLITIONISM. The contribution that Clevelanders made to the cause of black emancipation was related to 2 geographic factors: the location of the city in the Puritan New England environment of the ...

A 3-foot granite memorial in Susquehanna Township’s Lincoln Cemetery sums up quite a life. “Scholar, humanitarian, churchman, civic-leader, educator, editor, publisher, lecturer,” it reads. William ...

When laws are designed fairly, in line with international human rights standards and applied consistently, they can be an important tool for upholding justice and equality. But without safeguards, ...

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has criticised the ABC, calling it "miserable", "racist" and a perpetrator of the "soft bigotry of low expectations". Speaking at the launch of a biography of former ...

Faithfully recreating the music of slave organizers, freedom fighters, and abolitionists, a recent compilation sheds light on the politics of collective liberation at the root of 19th-century American ...

In May 2017, more than 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates gathered in Mutitjulu in the shadow of Uluru and put their signatures on a historic statement. The Uluru Statement from the ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has indicated he may be open to supporting a referendum on a First ...

On the fifth anniversary of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, we take a look back at this momentous day in Australian history, and explain exactly what the statement asked of all Australians. After ...

Kris Statlander is on the All Elite Wrestling injured list, but she is still finding a way to positively impact the wrestling world as a panelist on the new IWTV series The Masked Wrestler. Statlander ...

Yesterday was National Sorry Day in Australia. It marks the anniversary of the tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, which chronicles decades of removals of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...