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Nicholas Boston

Nicholas Boston is an associate professor of media sociology​ at Lehman College, the City University of New York​

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On MLK Day, Canadian immigrants like me have a special responsibility

<p>A costumed Notting Hill Carnival reveller in 2019</p>
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Time we had a Carnival month – and make it an international affair

<p>Windrush mural and plaque at the Port of Tilbury</p>
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It’s time to tell the stories of Windrush’s Indo-Caribbean passengers

<p>Hubert Howard arrived in the UK in 1960 from Jamaica with a British passport but his world caved in when he tried to prove his citizenship</p>
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The Home Office acted unlawfully in the Windrush scandal

<p>Andria Marsh holds up photographs of her parents and her original British passport after a service at Westminster Abbey in celebration of 70 years since the arrival of Empire Windrush, 22 June 2018</p>
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The Windrush generation deserves to be depicted as victors

Kamala Harris was born in California and grew up partly in Canada before moving back to her home state
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I went to Kamala Harris’s high school. Here’s why that matters

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On VE Day, meet the Nigerian Polish war hero you've never heard of

Calypso singer Aldwyn Roberts, known as ‘Lord Kitchener’, at the Savoy Hotel, 1957
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Even the music you love has been threatened by immigration controls

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Why Canada is the promised land for Meghan Markle and black people

Clipping of Ivor Cummings from The Independent’s obituary in 1992
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Who was the ‘gay father of the Windrush generation’?

The Home Office headquarters in Croydon
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We have ignored the Polish Windrush Generation for way too long

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