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British Colonial Racism Comes to Roost
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
14 Jan 2020
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Although Britain never experienced a civil rights movement on its own soil, such movements did take place “in its colonies...in anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggles,” said Adam Elliott-Cooper, a Black activist and doctoral student at Oxford University. Black protest in Britain is informed by that colonial history.

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