In an era marked with escalating violence due to growing regionalism and ethnic divide, which threatens to disrupt world peace at large, the news of a world-renowned university, the University of Edinburgh, owning its past misdemeanours pertaining to racism and slavery and course-correcting it comes as a welcome relief.

A Race Review by the university’s Equality & Diversity Committee and its Race and Anti-Racist Sub-committee has thrown light on the prestigious university’s dark past, which links it to the “histories of enslavement, colonialism, and the development of racial pseudo-sciences.”

The university played a major role in creating “racist theories” and profited from slavery, the review found. In an attempt to right the wrongdoings, the........

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