Voices of Preston’s Windrush generation – when I first arrived, I said: ‘Really? I thought there were no slums in this place!’

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Voices of Preston’s Windrush generation – when I first arrived, I said: ‘Really? I thought there were no slums in this place!’

By: Alan Rice and Jack Hepworth // TheConversation.com From the earliest arrivals of what would become Preston’s “Windrush generation”, the status of the Caribbean diaspora was hotly contested in this post-industrial Lancashire town, as elsewhere. Discrimination and prejudice dogged the daily lives of people from the Caribbean who made their home here. In 1955, the […]

Britain Is Racist. There, I Said It.

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Britain Is Racist. There, I Said It.

European Football Championship UEFA EURO 2020. Marcus Rashford player in action during the football match between national team of the England vs Ukraine, Italy – Rome, Italy – July 3, 2021 (Shutterstock) By Raven Smith, Vogue Britain is racist. There, I said it. I wanted to soften the blow of this statement, to maybe say […]