The post Barbados May Seek Reparations from Benedict Cumberbatch’s Family for Slavery appeared first on Consequence. Barbados has begun seeking reparations from the descendants of slave owners, as The ...

Drax Hall, a Barbados plantation where sugar has been reaped for nearly four centuries, was for so long just an ordinary part of what Phillips understood as her wholesome childhood. She grew up nearby ...

David Comissiong, the deputy chairperson of the National Task Force on Reparations in Barbados, has issued a clarification after it was reported that his organization had Benedict Cumberbatch's family ...

The government of Barbados wants to make a wealthy Conservative member of The British Parliament the first person to pay reparations for his ancestor’s role in slavery, The Guardian reports. Richard ...

The streaming giant beat out Paramount and Comcast after a unanimous board vote. 4 hours ago In 1728, Cumberbatch's fifth great-grandfather, Abraham Cumberbatch, bought the island's Cleland plantation ...

The online buzz over high profile Britons' ties to the trans-Atlantic slave trade put attention on the ongoing reparations push in Barbados, and... A kerfuffle about whether British actor Benedict ...

It’s no secret that Benedict Cumberbatch’s ancestors owned slaves on a plantation on the Caribbean island of Barbados throughout the 1700s and 1800s. But just before the new year, British publication ...

*Reparations for Barbados are long overdue, according to the country’s Prime Minister, Mia Mottley. Speaking during a lecture at the London School of Economics, the national leader mentioned that $4.9 ...

The government of Barbados could make a wealthy Conservative member of parliament the first individual to pay for his ancestors’ role in slavery, The Guardian reports. The country’s leaders are ...

A kerfuffle about whether British actor Benedict Cumberbatch will have to pay reparations to descendants of slaves in Barbados made headlines this week. It's still unclear who exactly may become ...