Rex Nettleford was a recipient of the 1957 Rhodes Scholarship to Oriel College, Oxford, where he received a postgraduate degree in Politics, returning to Jamaica in the early 1960s to take up a position at UWI.
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10 Facts About Rex Nettleford
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Over twenty years, Rex Nettleford has been the artistic director for the University Singers of the University of the West Indies, Mona campus in Jamaica.
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Rex Nettleford received the Gold Musgrave Medal and 13 honorary doctorates, including one in Civil Law from Oxford University.
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On 27 January 2010, Rex Nettleford was admitted to the intensive-care unit of the George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC, after suffering a heart attack at his hotel in the city.
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Rex Nettleford suffered a serious brain injury while he was in cardiac arrest.
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Rex Nettleford was in Washington for a meeting discussing the current state of racial discrimination going on around the world.
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Rex Nettleford was expected to meet in New York with his former employer, University of the West Indies, for a fundraising event but was unable to make it due to his sudden death.
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Rex Nettleford was an important individual to the extramural studies department at University of the West Indies.
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Rex Nettleford's life was the subject of a trilogy of films by Lennie Little-White, commissioned by the foundation.
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