Laura Trevelyan
| Use attributes for filter ! | |
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Age | 55 |
| Date of birth | August 21,1968 |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
| Born | Islington |
| London | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Spouse | James Goldston |
| Residence | New York City |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Job | Actor |
| Journalist | |
| Books | The Winchester: Legend of the West |
| A Very British Family: The Trevelyans and Their World | |
| Movies/Shows | BBC World News America |
| World News Today | |
| Parents | George Macaulay Trevelyan |
| Susan Pearson | |
| Nationality | American |
| British | |
| Children | 3 |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 473003 |
Laura Trevelyan Life story
Laura Kate Trevelyan is a British-American journalist who worked for the BBC for 30 years. She served as an On the Record reporter, United Nations correspondent, and New York correspondent, before anchoring BBC World News America.
Gladstone family urged to pay slavery reparations to Jamaica
... Other members include former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan and her family, who apologised to Grenada and promised £100,000 in reparations in February this year...
UK's £18tn slavery debt is an underestimation, UN judge says
... Some of the descendants of slave owners - such as former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan, and the family of 19th Century Prime Minister William Gladstone - have attempted to make amends...
How a flood led family to discover slavery link
... This year another family with links to slavery, the Trevelyans, Laura Trevelyan then quit the BBC after 30 years to become a full-time slavery reparations campaigner...
Trevelyan descendant 'would consider' Irish famine compensation
... Laura Trevelyan accepts that her great, great, great-grandfather was among those who " failed their people" while governing Ireland during the famine...
Slavery: Rishi Sunak rejects call to apologise and pay reparations
... Laura Trevelyan, former BBC journalist and reparations campaigner, said she welcomed Mr Sunak s " commitment to understanding Britain s history and not running away from it"...
Laura Trevelyan: My slavery link to MP shows reality of reparations
... The campaigners are former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan and her cousin John Dower, who recently apologised to the Caribbean island of Grenada for their family s historic role in the slave trade...
Wealthy UK family to apologise in Grenada over slave-owning past
... BBC reporter Laura Trevelyan, a family member, visited Grenada in 2022...
From Afghanistan's finance minister to cab driver in the US
... The BBC s Laura Trevelyan met him as he was behind the wheel...
Wealthy UK family to apologise in Grenada over slave-owning past
A UK family will publicly apologise to The People of The Caribbean island of Grenada , where its ancestors had More Than 1,000 slaves in The 19Th Century .
The aristocratic Trevelyan family, who owned six sugar plantations in Grenada , will also pay reparations.
BBC reporter Laura Trevelyan , A Family member, visited Grenada in 2022.
She was shocked that her ancestors had been compensated by The UK government when slavery was abolished in 1833 - But freed African slaves got nothing.
Speaking to The Bbc in a personal capacity on Saturday, Ms Trevelyan recalled her visit to The Island for a documentary.
" It was really horrific. . I saw for myself The plantations where slaves were punished, when I saw The instruments of torture that were used to restrain them. "
" I felt ashamed, and I also felt that it was my duty. You can't repair The Past - But you can acknowledge The Pain . "
Ms Trevelyan said seven members of her family would travel to Grenada later in February to issue a public apology.
The Family will give £100,000 ($120,000) to establish a community fund for Economic Development on The impoverished island and in The Eastern Caribbean.
Ms Trevelyan said that in 1834, The Trevelyans received about £34,000 for The Loss of their " property" on Grenada - The equivalent of about £3m in today's money.
" For me to be giving £100,000 almost 200 years later. . maybe that seems like really inadequate, " She Said .
" But I hope that we're setting an example by apologising for what our ancestors did. "
The Grenada National Reparations Commission described The gesture as Commendable .
Source of news: bbc.com
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