KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 28, 2025 - by Ahmed Reid and Verene Shepherd - March has two significant historical events that the global community, but especially Africa and its Diaspora, mark each year: The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in memory of the Sharpville Massacre in South Africa during the anti-apartheid struggle, and March 25, The “International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade”. [Of course, these days “chattel enslavement” and “trafficking” are regarded by descendants of the original victims as more suitable descriptors].