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An Introduction to the Movement for Reparations for Black People in the United States
In 1783, Belinda Sutton, an African-born enslaved woman, successfully petitioned the Massachusetts legislature for com...
Continue readingThere Was a Time Reparations Were Actually Paid Out – Just Not to Formerly Enslaved People
The cost of slavery and its legacy of systemic racism to generations of Black Americans has been clear over the past yea...
Continue readingRestoring Africa’s Story: Teaching Artist Institute and Vatican Officials Talk Reparations and Healing
Howard sees TAI’s efforts as partnering with the Global Circle’s demands, and as such, will play a pivotal r...
Continue readingReparations Resolution
WHEREAS, African Americans have been enslaved in the United States from 1619 to 1865 and people of African descent have...
Continue readingTonika Lewis Johnson’s Reparations Are Due! exhibit and the National Resource Center for State and Local Reparations mural unveiling
Join us for an afternoon of creativity, history, and activism as FirstRepair presents Reparations Are Due!, an exhibit b...
Continue readingCalifornia Legislative Black Caucus Introduces 2024 Reparations Legislative Package
The California Legislative Black Caucus announced the planned introduction of the 2024 Reparations Priority Bill Package...
Continue readingEmmett Till and his mother honored with the Congressional Gold Medal
Congress is posthumously awarding Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, the Congressional Gold Medal. The medal...
Continue readingA Call For Reparations: How America Might Narrow The Racial Wealth Gap
The killing of George Floyd has ignited protests and inspired conversations — and changes — across the globe...
Continue readingTulsa, Oklahoma, mayor backs new plan for reparations for race massacre victims
Tulsa, Oklahoma's new mayor said on Tuesday that he is backing parts of a plan that aims to pay reparations to the s...
Continue readingSlavery reparations: Where do Europe and the United States stand?
Discussions on reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism are gaining momentum, with Caribbean and African na...
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