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Descendant of enslaved Africans now running a city built on slavery.

A lot of attention has been rightly focused on the new mayor of London being a Muslim, However, in Bristol, a city whose growth owes so much to the slave trade, Marvin Rees, the working-class son of an English mother and Jamaican father, has made history as the first directly elected city mayor in Europe of African or Caribbean heritage. Read more from this article in the Guardian.

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