Thomas Clarkson is less remembered than William Wilberforce, but he can claim to have played an equally important role in the British abolition campaign, as one of the founders of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, the author of its...

JILL KIPNIS, Billboard The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-18-2005 Clarkson headlines -- Theater tour for 'American Idol' favorite By JILL KIPNIS, Billboard Date: 03-18-2005, Friday Section: GO! Edtion: All Editions Kelly Clarkson is coming into her own. Three years after winning...

749p - Transport - Alright, recommending readers to buy shares in Clarkson is something of a volte-face. Back in May, we recommended selling the shares. Back then, the world's shipping markets seemed to be weakening over worries that the Chinese economy was about...

Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves.Aboard the slaver, or Guineaman, as the vessels were also known, the kidnapped Africans frequently had to travel in living quarters as cramped as coffins,...

Michael Apted’s Amazing Grace, from a screenplay by Steven Knight, turns out to be blessed with inspirational nobility and comic eccentricity—the former provided by an edifying narrative, and the latter by a colorful cast of characters—to bring it to emotional fruition. As the 200th anniversary...