Laura Trevelyan
@LauraTrevelyan
Journalist. Backing the Caribbean’s call for reparatory justice. Honorary Fellow, PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean advocacy. 30 years at BBC News.
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22-03-2010 00:22:54
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Not even the rain can dampen my excitement about being Williams College to speak to students today on the topic of reparatory justice! Thanks for the invitation - thrilled that Arley Gill, chair of Grenada’s Reparations Committee, is joining us from the Caribbean.
Ah - top of my summer reading list! Nick Bryant strikes again, as America braces for a polarizing presidential election.
“Constituting a European
community of heirs of the slavery trade, slaves or slaveholders, in a process of moral and/or material reparation.” The aim of Dieudonné Boutrin + Pierre Guillon de Prince. Uncle Tom Trevelyan + cousin John Dower went to Nantes in support.
Fascinating, wide-ranging interview with David Comissiong, Barbados’s Ambassador to CARICOM, by Lucy Maguire of The Repair Campaign
in which he discusses Richard Drax, the reparatory justice movement, and the importance of international allies.
jamaica.loopnews.com/content/richar…
How a UK trust with historic links to an enslaver in Jamaica is now trying to make amends for this horrible past. The Hibbert Trust is working with Verene A. Shepherd of the Centre for Reparations Research The UWI Mona Campus. jamaica-gleaner.com/article/focus/…
The incomparable lyse doucet on how Iran’s new doctrine has changed everything - via the New Statesman. newstatesman.com/diary/2024/04/…
Hi The Booker Prizes, I really appreciate the transparency. The enslaved African people referenced are my family.
Josias & George did not 'manage' my family. They enslaved them. Thats why we STILL have their last name. They were enslavers, not 'managers'.
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-bro…
Grenfell, in the words of the survivors, is a riveting play @saintannswarehouse directed by Phyllida Lloyd produced by Kate Pakenham - a compelling account of the cost cutting and disregard for safety which led to the deaths of 72 people in a raging inferno.