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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Robert Dex and Arts Correspondent

Booker Prize urged to rethink its name over slavery connection

The Booker Prize has been urged to change its name over the literary award’s connections to the slave trade.

Radio 1Xtra DJ Richie Brave, whose original surname is Booker, said his ancestors had been enslaved by the founders of the firm which established the prize.

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