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Kehinde Andrews

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Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University and author of The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

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PLUNDERING WITH A SMILE

An Antiracist Guide to Watching King Charles’ Coronation

The new monarch is being careful to not project the British Empire’s legacy of colonialism, but it’s simply inescapable.

Kehinde Andrews

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‘ROTTEN TO THE CORE’

Removing One Royal Racist Is Nothing. Abolish the Monarchy.

The outrage felt by many white people at Prince William’s godmother’s racist comments elicited little more than a shrug from those of us who are Black and British.

Kehinde Andrews

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