Source: United Nations (Video News)
Remarks by Salome Agbaroji, Youth speaker and former United States Youth Poet Laureate, during the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Every year on 25 March, the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade offers the opportunity to honour and remember those who suffered and died at the hands of the slavery system. The International Day also aims to raise awareness about the dangers of racism and prejudice today.