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By Preston Green III and Bruce Baker — White public schools have always gotten more money than Black public schools. These funding disparities go back to the so-called “separate but equal” era…
![Keith Young](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/keith-young-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
By Joel Burgess, Asheville Citizen Times — A $365,583 contract for a reparations project manager is facing criticism from the former elected official who wrote the city’s historic initiative. Ex-City…
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By The Jamaica Gleaner and UWI’s Centre for Reparation Research — In this week’s Reparation Conversations, a collaborative initiative between The Jamaica Gleaner and The UWI’s Centre for Reparation Research,…
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If the task force commissions a school curriculum about slavery in the state, Californians will see more clearly how the past informs the present. By Kevin Waite, LA Times —…
![(l to r) Lisa Tharps, Angela Pierce, Jason Bowen, and Malcolm Ingram in the GSC production of Reparations](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/GSC-REPARATIONS-Lisa-Tharps-Angela-Pierce-Jason-Bowen-Malcolm-Ingram-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
As the play ends, all four characters have a clear understanding of their marching orders. But will they — or we — act on them? By David Greenham, The Arts…
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By Paul B. Johnson, The High Point Enterprise, N.C. — The city moved closer to the formation of a reparation commission to address the history of local racial discrimination and…
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Rebalancing labor relations so that workers are empowered would be an effective way to address racial wealth disparities and atone for the legacy of slavery, a scholar argues. By Joerg…
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By Alexa Imani Spencer, Black Enterprise — A cemetery of enslaved Africans in Brazil has been discovered and turned into a museum after nearly 200 years. The cemetery site was…
(Sat Sept 4, 12 PM ET) A Special IBW Labor Day Weekend Video Premiere — “Convict Leasing, Forced Labor and the Theft of Black Wealth: The Case of the Chattahoochee…
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By Kevin Waite, The Conversation — The history of American slavery generally conjures a set of familiar images: sprawling plantations white with cotton, gangs of enslaved African Americans stooped low…
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Evanston was the first city to implement a plan to repair the harm caused by slavery – and what occurred there could set the tone for what may happen at…