JUST a small reminder that Voices for Scotland are featuring two prominent speakers in their Thursday night virtual get-togethers over the next fortnight.
In this Black History Month, there is sure to be a lot of demand to join the discussion led by Sir Geoff Palmer, considered by many to be the foremost expert on black history in the UK, who will be on the get-together at 6pm on Thursday, October 29.
Palmer is a prominent human rights activist and an academic of many years standing who is also involved in a considerable amount of charity work in the community. His book on race relations, entitled Mr White and the Ravens, was first published in 2001.
Palmer has also authored a book on the history of slavery, The Enlightenment Abolished: Citizens of Britishness (2007), and has spoken out extensively against the slave trade.
He is preceded tomorrow, October 22, also at 6pm by writer, historian and contributor to the Sunday National Gerry Hassan who is currently senior research fellow in contemporary Scottish history at Dundee University.
Previously, he has been senior research fellow at the Institute of Public Policy Research Scotland and was research fellow in cultural policy at the University of the West of Scotland where he completed and was awarded his PhD.
Hassan has written and edited numerous books on Scotland and the wider world.
Please register for either or both events at voicesforscotland.scot.
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