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‘We feel the pain but there is also joy’: the healing power of diasporic connection

The Legacies of Enslavement programme aims to atone for the Guardian’s past while highlighting the lasting impact of transatlantic slavery

  • Illustrations by Ngadi Smart

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. In capoe…

60 days ago

Brazil fights Harvard to reclaim African rebel’s skull after 190 years

The remains were taken to the US during a revolt led by Muslim slaves

In January 1835, wearing religious robes and carrying amulets inscribed with prayers and passages from the Qur’an, hundreds of Afr…

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