Reflections on the importance of Windrush Day in a post Brexit Britain

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News; Articles; Black Lives Matter Movement

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On June 22, it will be exactly 70 summers since an iconic group stepped off the military transport ship, the Empire Windrush, at Tilbury Docks in London, to launch an adventure that would transform their own lives and the future of Britain. They were not to know they were also walking into the pages of history, the first recorded mass migration to this island. Their story would come, in many ways, to define what it means to be British.

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Trevor Phillips

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blackhistorymonth.org.uk

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