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2023

• Remembering the Two Pelés: The Pathbreaking Black Athlete and the Global Celebrity (The Wire)

• The Parthenon marbles: George Osborne wants to return the statues to Athens, but can he? A legal expert explains (The Conversation)

• ‘Shot two zebras. Played tennis’: Scarborough museum confronts legacy of colonial past (The Guardian)

• How do you say the word ‘sun’ in Cree? It starts with learning respect (The Guardian)

• British opera singer creates work to reveal humanity of enslaved ancestors (The Guardian)

• Alan Cumming hands back his OBE citing the ‘toxicity of empire’ (The Guardian)

• Abortion Is Not a “Choice” Without Racial Justice (Boston Review)

• One woman’s forgotten story reveals a dirty truth about Africa’s written histories (The Guardian)

Charting a course to make maths truly universal (Nature)

‘The gift of paradise’: how the Hear Me Out Band give a voice to immigration detainees (The Guardian)

‘My forefathers did something horribly wrong’: British slave owners’ family to apologise and pay reparations (The Guardian)

Prince Harry is wrong: unconscious bias is not different to racism (The Conversation)

Zambia’s copper mines hard-baked racism into the workplace by labelling whites ‘expats’ (The Conversation)

Stella Chiweshe: Zimbabwe’s mbira queen, rebel music star and pioneer (The Conversation)

Copper transformed way the world works before: it’s about to do so again (The Conversation)

A major new exhibition in Nairobi reveals the history of East African art traditions (The Conversation)

Pretty Yende, a South African opera star with a voice that shatters glass ceilings (The Conversation)

Explainer: What is Australia’s Indigenous ‘Voice to Parliament’ campaign?  (Reuters)

How America plans to break China’s grip on African minerals (The Economist)

Samoa PM urges world to save Pacific people from climate crisis obliteration (The Guardian)

Indigenous group says company offering Australian land to Oscar nominees used its name and material without permission (The Guardian)

‘The US army destroyed our lives’: five Iraqis on the war that changed the Middle East (The Guardian)

‘You walked in and your heart sank’: the shocking inside story of Manston detention centre (The Guardian)

Climate colonialism is more than a metaphor (Transforming Society)

A fight in Arizona over sacred land and a mine raises big issues (The Economist)

Four steps to decolonising the mental health sector (Bond)

MORE THAN MONEY THE LOGIC OF SLAVERY REPARATIONS (The Guardian)

Africans in World War 1: artist William Kentridge’s epic theatre production restores forgotten histories (The Conversation)

DNA study opens a window into African civilisations that left a lasting legacy (The Conversation)

My ancestors profited from slavery. Here’s how I am starting to atone for that (The Guardian)

Neville Lawrence says Met police surrendered to son’s killers (The Guardian)

How Black children in England’s schools are made to feel like the way they speak is wrong (The Conversation)

Ghetto Kids: what’s behind the moves of the Ugandan dance troupe that stormed the world (The Conversation)

Māori punk band’s tour of Wales puts spotlight on indigenous languages (The Guardian)

Elite UK schools’ financial links to slavery revealed (The Guardian)

Rana Plaza: ten years after the Bangladesh factory collapse, we are no closer to fixing modern slavery (The Conversation)

How food came to the rescue of the British in India (Scroll.in)

Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Omai acquired by National Portrait Gallery (The Guardian)

Without Indigenous History, There Is No U.S. History (Time)

Commonwealth Indigenous leaders demand apology from the king for effects of colonisation (The Guardian)

Cleopatra’s skin colour didn’t matter in ancient Egypt – her strategic role in world history did (The Conversation)