Ideas change everything

How our stories cross over

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Colin Grant |

TEDxBrighton

• October 2012

Colin Grant has spent a lifetime navigating the emotional landscape between his father’s world and his own. Born in England to Jamaican parents, Grant draws on stories of shared experience within his immigrant community -- and reflects on how he found forgiveness for a father who rejected him.

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Colin Grant has spent a lifetime navigating the emotional landscape between his father’s world and his own. Born in England to Jamaican parents, Grant draws on stories of shared experience within his immigrant community -- and reflects on how he found forgiveness for a father who rejected him.

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Author, historian

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Colin Grant is an author and historian whose works focus on larger-than-life figures of the African diaspora.

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