Transatlantic Trade

They received reparations in 2022. Did it really change their lives?
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They received reparations in 2022. Did it really change their lives?

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Louis Weathers didn’t know what to think when he heard he was going to receive reparations for slavery. He had listened to people talking about reparations — people such as Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton — during the two decades he’d lived in Washington DC. But it was always couched as a demand, or an aspiration:…

Ulysses from Ghana, a film inspired by Mohamed Ben Abdallah, screened in Paris
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Ulysses from Ghana, a film inspired by Mohamed Ben Abdallah, screened in Paris

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The South-South Cooperation Council for Sustainable Development (SSCC) has screened Docufiction Ulysses from Ghana at a film screening event held at UNESCO’S headquarters in Paris, France. Ulysses from Ghana is inspired by the play “Slaves” written by Ghanaian author and playwright Mohamed Ben Abdallah. The Transatlantic trade, depicted in the play, marked one of the…