£20 million Caribbean Reparations Agreement
St Lucia star – AUGUST 4TH, 2019 – PRESS RELEASE
The University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Glasgow have signed the first ever agreement for slavery reparations since British Emancipation in 1838. The £20 million agreement was signed at the Regional Headquarters of The UWI in Kingston, Jamaica last week by Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles and Dr David Duncan, University of Glasgow’s Chief Operating Officer, representing Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli. Continue reading
Boris Johnson Interviewed Me for His Column. Here is more – Patricia J. Williams | The Nation
On Brexit, race, and criminal justice, Britain’s new prime minister has always played both sides for maximum expediency.
A British friend of mine suffers from Irritable Bowel Syndrome. She has nicknamed her condition “Boris Johnsonitis”. I wouldn’t ordinarily repeat such intimately degrading aspersions — after all, I was voted “most lady-like” in high school — but sometimes, one vulgarity can only be conveyed with another.
Besides, I have an ax to grind with Boris.
The year was 1997. Although the trend was largely ignored in the United States, much of the rest of the world had formally bracketed 1997 as time to be dedicated to the goal of combating all forms of disabling prejudice, including xenophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-Roma and other anti-minority sentiment. Continue reading →
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