un permanent memorial for slavery

UN Permanent Memorial to honour slavery victims for unveiling Wednesday

The United Nations Permanent Memorial to Honour Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is scheduled to be unveiled on United Nations ground in New York on March 25, 2015. With the theme ‘Acknowledging the Tragedy; Considering the Legacy; Lest we forget’, the monument is being erected in an effort to acknowledge the tragedy of slavery, racial prejudice and the lingering consequences of the…