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How actress Tamara Lawrance connected to her Jamaican roots through her new PBS series

Staff Writer Feb 19, 2021

(NBC News) Actress Tamara Lawrance did not fully realise the emotional toll of playing an enslaved woman who survives the 1831 Christmas Rebellion in Jamaica in the new Masterpiece miniseries “The Long Song” until she had a chance…
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‘All of humanity is part of this story,’ UNESCO says on Day to remember slavery and its…

Michelle Nurse Aug 23, 2016 0

23 August 2016 – The courage of the men and women who in August 1791 revolted against slavery in Haiti “has created obligations for us,” the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said on the…
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