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• Blacks / Black people/African diaspora (UK)

  David Olusoga: ‘Black British people were told that they had no history’

  25 September, by GHADIALI Ashish, OLUSOGA David

  The historian and TV presenter on the story of former slave Olaudah Equiano and the significance of Black History Month in the UK.
  Historian and broadcaster David Olusoga has been the face of a decolonial turn in British broadcasting that, in recent years, with series including the (...)

• Blacks / Black people/African diaspora (UK)

  UK: Ignore the Cries of ‘Vandalism’ – Tearing Down the Statue Was Pure Justice

  9 June 2020, by BASTANI Aaron

  It’s rare that a single image expresses an ideal as complex as ‘justice’. That isn’t for want of trying, of course. Lady Justice, blindfolded and holding the scales of consequence aloft, is a mainstay in popular metaphor, her figure adorning law courts around the world. In London she stands atop (...)

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  George Floyd: Black Lives Matter in Scotland

  6 June 2020, by BRUCE Iain

  Thousands of protesters came out in Scotland, in Glasgow and Edinburgh, on Sunday, to take the knee in solidarity with the Black Lives Matters protests in the United States, and to express their opposition to institutional racism here in Britain too.
  The mood was festive, but resolute, as a (...)