By Sean Coughlan
BBC News education and family correspondent
Universities in the UK which benefited in previous centuries from the slave trade should contribute to a £100m fund to support ethnic minority students, says a university leader.
Geoff Thompson, chair of governors of the University of East London, says it would be “ethical and right” for universities to […]
Video clips from the centre for Reparation Research’s seminar which took place on October 19, 2018. It was under the theme “Cleaning Up the Colonial Mess: Persistent Poverty and Social Decline” and was presented by Prof Brian Meeks.
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History shows slavery helped build many U.S. colleges and universities
STORY: Stephen Smith | Kate Ellis
As more schools begin to confront their participation in slavery, they also consider how to make amends.
Dozens of American colleges and universities are investigating their historic ties to the slave trade and debating how to atone.
Profits from slavery and related industries […]
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Contributor
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots
— Marcus Garvey
Washington, DC, August 23, 2018 — The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) announces the launch of a global news feature series on the history, contemporary realities and implications of the […]
The Centre for Reparation Research, The university of the West Indies presents a seminar:
Friday, October 19, 2018
10:00am – 12 noon
Dr. Aleem Mohammed Room
Regional Headquarters, the UWI
2A Hermitage Road, Kingston 7
Presenter:
Professor Brian Meeks
“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”
― Edward E. Baptist, “The Half Has Never Been Told”
When we accept that prestigious […]
Professor Sean Wilentz Photo courtesy of the Department of History website.
“There is no other more central or urgent topic in our history than slavery,” University history professor Sean Wilentz stated at a Sept. 28 panel discussion on his […]
Taíno leader Francisco “Panchito” Ramírez Rojas offers a prayer to the sea near Baracoa on Cuba’s eastern coast. (Maggie Steber)Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/what-became-of-the-taino-73824867/#wiZIgbmPBiP3ztql.99Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGvFollow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter
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Native mariners discovered the Caribbean thousands of years before Columbus arrived. When Spanish ships landed at Guanahani, on October 12, 1492, the Greater Antilles were densely inhabited by diverse Native peoples. Speaking several languages, they lived in independent and self-sufficient communities. Centuries earlier, large Taíno chiefdoms had expanded over several islands, establishing a sphere of […]
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