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A demonstrator holds a flare in Windrush Square during the annual Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations march in London, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, Black people whose right to live in the U.K. was illegally challenged by the government marked the anniversary Sunday of the act that freed slaves throughout the British Empire, drawing a direct link between slavery and the discrimination they suffered. Dozens of campaigners gathered in Brixton, a center of the Black community in south London, to back the international drive for reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans and demand legislation to compensate legal residents who were threatened with deportation in what is known as the Windrush Scandal. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali/AP Photo)
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