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The Scott Trust, the foundation that owns the British newspaper, will allocate £10 million to a restorative justice program for descendant communities
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The Scott Trust, the foundation that owns the British newspaper, will allocate £10 million to a restorative justice program for descendant communities
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Scott Trust to invest in decade-long programme of restorative justice after academic research into newspaper’s origins
In 2020, the Scott Trust commissioned an academic review into the founding of the Guardian in 1821 by John Edward Taylor and his financial backers. That investigation is now complete, and here we present the findings, along with the trust’s response
The Guardian founder, John Edward Taylor, used wealth made from slavery to establish the newspaper