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Beckles to make case for Windrush generation in London

By IBW21News & Current Affairs, Reparations

BECKLES… to visit London, United Kingdom, this week to participate in discussions concerning the Windrush generation By The Jamaica Observer — Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The…

June 14, 2018

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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, centre left, hosts a meeting with leaders and representatives of Caribbean countries, inside 10 Downing Street in central London, Tuesday April 17, 2017, on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM). May met with Caribbean leaders and envoys Tuesday, and told them "we are genuinely sorry for any anxiety that has been caused" personally apologizing for the treatment of long-term U.K. residents from the Caribbean who have been asked to prove their right to stay in the country.

Windrush: Brexit and Blackxit

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

By Professor Sir Hilary Beckles — Caribbean Prime Ministers witnessed it first-hand. They were gathered in England as a Commonwealth when Prime Minister May tried to take the sails out of the Windrush. They spoke of the crime of citizenship denied; they demanded justice for all West Indians. Prime Minister Holness spoke to the press and held the centre for the Caribbean. There was vexation in his eyes but his…

May 7, 2018

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African Global Reparations with Sir Hilary Beckles

By IBW21Reparations, Video/Audio

African Global Reparations — April 21, 2018 Lecture and Q&A at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History with Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor, University of West Indies, Jamaica

April 24, 2018

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Sir Hilary Beckles to speak on reparations at Tulane University conference in New Orleans

By IBW21Reparations

March 16-17, 2018 Tulane University, New Orleans is hosting a conference titled “A Conference of Global Perspectives: Regimes of Redress and Reparations, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law”. Co-sponsored by the Gordon Gamm Faculty Scholar Fund and the Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Scholarship Fund. More info here…

March 10, 2018

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The Centre for Reparation Research at The University of the West Indies confronts claims by British Treasury

By IBW21Reparations, Video/Audio

February 21, 2018 — Media Conference: The Centre for Reparation Research at The University of the West Indies confronts claims by British Treasury. Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor, The UWI…

February 23, 2018

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The Cameron Deception: The UK Refuses To Apologize For Slavery While Paying Off Debts Up To 2015

By IBW21Reparations

On September 30, 2015 when Prime Minister David Cameron of Great Britain & Northern Ireland addressed the Jamaican Parliament and told the people of the island and region that slavery…

February 22, 2018

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Cong. John Conyers of Detroit, honorable host of the CBC’s Reparations Braintrust and author of HR40 welcomes members of the NAARC and Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles.

NAARC Rolls Out Preliminary 10 Point Reparations Plan

By NAARCNAARC News, Reparations

The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) Rolls Out a Reparations Plan at the 2015 Congressional Black Caucus Conference. Preamble: No amount of material resources or monetary compensation can ever be sufficient restitution for the spiritual, mental, cultural and physical damages inflicted on Africans by centuries of the MAAFA, the holocaust of enslavement and the institution of chattel slavery…

April 16, 2015

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