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What Is the Bash Shell, and Why Is It So Important to Linux? What Is a Shell? When you open a terminal window and type commands, something has to take what you’ve typed, figure out what you intended, and run the tasks you asked for. The software that does this is the shell. A shell is a command interpreter. It scans what you’ve typed and picks out the commands, directory names, file names, and program names so that it can figure out what you’re trying to achieve. People often use the phrases “terminal windows,” “command line,” and “shell” interchangeably, but they’re thre...

Sewell quoted from Bob Marley’s Redemption Song during his opening remarks. He said: “He [Marley] says this: ‘Old pirates, yes, they rob I/ Sold I to the merchant ships/ Minutes after they took I/ From the bottomless pit/ But my hand was made strong/ By the hand of the almighty/ We forward in this generation triumphantly/ Won’t you help me sing/ These songs of freedom?’ “He’s talking here about slavery, those pirates robbing him, how African slaves retained the powerhouse of their imagination. That was the thing that the slavers couldn’t take away from us. We had our imaginati...

Last modified on Mon 12 Apr 2021 09.31 EDT At least 20 organisations and individuals who were listed as stakeholders in the government’s race disparity commission have distanced themselves from the report and its findings. The report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, released at the end of March, concluded that while racism and racial injustice still exist, geography, family influence, socioeconomic background, culture and religion all have a greater impact on life chances. It was widely condemned by MPs, unions and equality campaigners as “divisive” and a missed opport...

Academics Listed In Government-Backed Race Review Deny Taking Part Anger over Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report's claims about who it "heard evidence" from. Authors and academics cited in the controversial government-backed review on racial disparity have dismissed the suggestion they “participated” in the report.  The analysis by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, published on Wednesday, drew criticism for rejecting the term “institutional racism” – saying it should not be used as a “catch-all” phrase for any “micro-aggression”. At the top of th...

Experts named in government’s ‘flawed’ race report ‘shocked’ to see names in evidence contributor list Ashley Cowburn and Bethany Dawson © Provided by The Independent Two authors named as “stakeholders” in a landmark report into race disparities in Britain have hit out at claims they provided evidence, with one protesting: “I was never consulted”. It comes as the government faces a backlash over the findings of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which concluded that the UK was no longer a country where the “system is deliberately rigged” aga...