Beckles links Arday’s death to anti-Black racism

University of the West Indies Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, has linked the treatment of late Cambridge University academic Professor Jason Arday to systemic anti-Black racism, arguing that the circumstances surrounding his final weeks raise wider questions about the treatment of Black academics at British universities.

“The public destruction of the living and life of this young, accomplished scholar has resonated globally as a gruesome, networked catastrophe,” the historian and reparations campaigner said in a strongly worded statement following Professor Arday’s death, adding that it could not be separated from the historical and institutional effects of racism.

The late Cambridge University academic Professor Jason Arday (Photo Credit: New York Times)