As Western cities see statues of slaveholders and colonialists toppled, Benin’s coastal town of Ouidah is going the other way, restoring monuments of the painful era of the slave trade.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, European slavers held more than one million African men, women, and children in Ouidah’s Portuguese Fort before shipping them across the Atlantic in abominable conditions.
Ouidah, 40km (25 miles) from Benin’s economic hub of Cotonou, was one of the main slave staging posts to the Americas, according to Yale University research.
Aretha Franklin passed away in August of 2018 without a known will for her family to work with.
And the Queen of Soul's niece Sabrina Owens put the fate of the late singer's estate back into limbo, as she stepped down from her position as executor Thursday.
Owens, who was appointed by Franklin's four sons, cited that her departure comes as the result of a family rift stemming from the discovery of handwritten wills last year.
Moving on! Bethenny Frankel is selling her Greenwich, Connecticut home for $3 million.
Us Weekly confirmed on Friday, April 9, that the colonial-style house is officially for sale. The Skinnygirl founder, 50, purchased the home last year and oversaw a ton of major renovations before putting it back on the market.
Listed by Jeffrey Jackson at Centric Property Group, the 4,700-square-foot house includes five bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms, three fireplaces and an outdoor pool.
'I knew his hand was on my butt': Socialite Lana Scolaro opens up about Robin Thicke bottom-groping incident... and it wasn't their first encounter
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The girl at the centre of the Robin Thicke butt-grabbing saga has spoken out - claiming she wasn't expecting the uproar the cheeky photo op caused.
A look back at a genre that has inspired a century of cinema. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Courtesy of the Studios Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Courtesy of the Studios This article was originally published in 2020. It has been updated with the addition of Napoleon and other movies. Speaking to Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune in 1973, François Truffaut made an observation that’s cast a shadow over war movies ever since, even those seemingly opposed to war.