Last week, a Wall Street Journal columnist dismissed reparations as “yesterday’s fad,” praising Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for vetoing a bill that would have created a state commission to study them.
Reparations should be ‘front and centre’ when leaders meet this November, says former St Vincent and Grenadines PM ...
During the summer of 2020, a long-standing movement for reparations for Black Americans gained steam. Thanks to historic racial justice protests, several local and statewide initiatives received a ...
After former Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) retired from City Council in 2021, she said people all over the country still came to her asking for guidance on how to set up reparations initiatives in ...
As the United Nations recognises the transatlantic slave trade as a crime and calls for reparations, a growing ‘global diasporic movement’ is pushing for action ...
The D.C. Council passed a reparations bill this week that would compensate Black Washingtonians who are descendants of slaves or have been affected by Jim Crow-era policies, but Mayor Muriel Bowser ...
FirstRepair, an Evanston-based nonprofit reparations organization, is hosting its fifth annual National Symposium for State and Local Reparations with the National African American Reparations ...
Juneteenth, celebrated annually in the United States on June 19, commemorates the liberation of enslaved Black people. It marks the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and ...
Civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons discusses his new book on reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre, advocating ...
Caricom delegation begins high-level meetings in London. The regional body at the forefront of the Caribbean’s push for slavery reparations is preparing for its first official mission to the United ...
California had the country believe that it was all in about giving reparations to its Black residents, repairing the damage caused by years of systemic racism. Everyone involved knew the weight that ...
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