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Confronting Slavery’s Legacy: The Reparations Question
As we have seen , the quest for retrospective justice is a global phenomenon, with a host of different groups proffering claims for some form of acknowledgment or material consideration for…
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1898 Wilmington Coup
What traditionally has been termed a “race riot” has also been called a massacre, rebellion, revolt, race war, and coup d’etat. The events of November 10, 1898, in Wilmington constitute…
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Reparations Now! Who Shall Pay Reparations for Our Souls?
This year at Community Renewal Society’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Faith in Action Assembly, we launched our work centered on reparations. We invited our member congregations and all joining…
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What Is the Residual Impact of Slavery on African American Mental Health?
By Karuna Meda We may be five to six generations removed from the horrors of slavery, but the trauma of enslavement has been carried by African Americans through the ages….
