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In this Nov. 19, 2002, photo, students walk through the Harvard Law School area on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

Harvard Law School traces its origins to an Antiguan slave owner. Now the country wants reparations.

By IBW21Editors' Choice, Reparations

By Meagan Flynn, The Washington Post — In an urgently worded letter recently sent to Harvard, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne demanded that the university pay his country reparations “for the gains Harvard enjoyed at the expense” of Antiguan slaves. Browne’s Oct. 30 letter to Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow — reported Tuesday night by the Miami Herald and Harvard Crimson — draws a direct line from Harvard Law School’s success today…

November 13, 2019

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Foreign prime minister demands slavery reparations from Harvard

By IBW21Reparations

Says reparation is compensation, not a gift. By Jeremiah Poff, The College Fix — The prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda recently sent a letter to the president of Harvard University demanding that the Ivy League school pay his country slavery reparations. The Harvard Crimson reported that Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, in an Oct. 30 letter to Harvard President Lawrence Bacow demanded reparations for the university’s role in…

November 12, 2019

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Ambassador David Comissiong’s most recent Address on Reparations

By IBW21Editors' Choice, Reparations

Address by Ambassador David Comissiong to the West and Central Africa Conference on the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent Organized by the United Nations Commission for Human Rights and the African Union Dakar, Senegal (23-24 October, 2019). In 1834, after 225 years of relentless rebellion by our enslaved ancestors, slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire: and the methodology devised by the British Government for the…

November 11, 2019

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Browne says new UWI campus ‘defining moment’ in Antigua and Barbuda’s history

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) — Prime Minister Gaston Browne has described the establishment of the fourth campus of the University of the West Indies (UW) here as a “defining moment in Antigua and Barbuda’s history”. “The establishment of the Fourth Landed Campus of the UWI, is a landmark event and a defining moment in our nation’s history. It opens a further pathway for our country’s growth, development and prosperity, through…

September 3, 2019

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Antigua and Barbuda Culture Minister Daryll Matthew accepts the Carifesta baton from T&T Culture Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly.

A Cultural Supernova: Carifesta XIV hailed as a success

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

Carifesta XIV has been hailed as a success. By Laura Dowrich-Phillips, Loop — Speaking at the closing ceremony of the festival on Sunday night, Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Community Development, Culture and the Arts Dr Nyan Gadsby-Doll, Acting Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Colm Imbert, and Assistant General Secretary of Caricom Douglas Slater lauded the organisers for a successful festival. In her address, Dr Gadsby-Dolly described the festival…

August 27, 2019

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NAARC Convener Dr. Ron Daniels to Deliver Keynote Address at Emancipation Day Event in Antigua-Barbuda

By IBW21News & Current Affairs, Press Releases / Statements, Reparations

New York, July 30, 2019 — Dr. Ron Daniels, President of the Institute of the Black World (IBW) and Convener of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), will deliver the keynote address at this year’s ‘WatchNight Gathering’ event organized by The Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission (ABRSC). The event is scheduled for the Antigua Botanical Gardens on July 31st 2019 at 9:00 pm. This activity is staged annually…

July 30, 2019

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Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies.

Fourth UWI landed campus set for Antigua

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

By Joshua St. Aimee, St. Lucia Star — At a press conference in Saint Lucia last October, Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), revealed that the government of Antigua and Barbuda had agreed to work with the University in the hope of establishing a landed campus in the country. The University currently operates landed campuses in Mona, Jamaica; Cave Hill, Barbados; and St….

July 1, 2019

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Barbudans Take Legal Action Against Gov’t for Unlawful Development of Int’l Airport

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

Barbudans take legal action against Government of Antigua and Barbuda for unlawful development of international airport. Legal action seeks injunction to immediately halt development; reveals government continued construction despite knowledge of major ecological, archaeological risks and damage to island. ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, July 9, 2018 – A group of Barbudans have filed an application for leave for judicial review of the Government of Antigua and Barbuda’s decision to construct an…

July 10, 2018

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