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UWI’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles

Message from the CARICOM Reparations Commission On the Occasion of the U.S. Congressional Hearing on the HR40 Bill

By HR 40 Congressional Hearing, News & Current Affairs, Reparations

By Professor Sir Hilary Beckles — On behalf of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, allow me to congratulate members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties for conducting this Congressional hearing on the HR40 Bill. Your hearing comes at a time when the global movement for reparatory justice for 250 years of enslavement and genocide and for dismantling the structures of systemic racism and white supremacy…

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