Laura Trevelyan and the gathering momentum for reparations
by Rashmee
Posted on March 17, 2023
News that longtime BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan has presented her last @BBCWorld News America show …
Read MoreBarbados may give energy to reparations case, which is as much about politics as money
by Rashmee
Posted on March 15, 2023
I was reminded of a Financial Times piece on reparations (paywall) when I heard that …
Read MorePadma Lakshmi’s manifesto on kitchen truths and wholesomeness
by Rashmee
Posted on August 10, 2020
Padma Lakshmi was fairly droll when she spoke to The New York Times recently about …
Read MoreWe need to talk about empire: Britain is being forced to confront its ‘original sin’
by Rashmee
Posted on June 15, 2020 / The Focus
It all started with the death in Minneapolis on 25 May of an unarmed black …
Read MoreTearing down Fawlty Towers won’t promote racial justice
by Rashmee
Posted on June 13, 2020 / The Focus
What links the 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers and the statue of a 17th-century slave trader?…
Read MoreAmerica’s most trusted dictionary will redefine racism
by Rashmee
Posted on June 12, 2020 / The Focus
Merriam-Webster has been in the business of word definitions for the better part of 200 …
Read MoreDoes Gone with the Wind belong in a museum?
by Rashmee
Posted on June 11, 2020 / The Focus
Does Gone with the Wind belong in a museum? HBO Max has temporarily removed the …
Read MoreHow an Alabama newspaper front page became a memorial
by Rashmee
Posted on April 30, 2018
When the installation formally known as the National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened on …
Read MoreSlavery and African-Americans: Without the first, the second would not exist
by Rashmee
Posted on May 28, 2014
As with much that it writes, The Economist is spot on about the sheer “nonsense” …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK