The Middle Passage and Black Latin America is a documentary short on the history of the Transatlantic Slave trade, how it was started, developed, and the importance of the Spanish…
By The Associated Press — The faith community should guide the way on reparations for America’s history of slavery and racial discrimination and help the nation’s process of reconciliation and…
A new book tells the forgotten story of fugitive slaves who found freedom south of the border. David S. Reynolds, The New York Review There has long been a fascination…
By Carla Hinton, Oklahoman — Editor’s note: The following may include first-person accounts of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre contain graphic depictions and antiquated racial terminology. We have chosen not…
By DeNeen L. Brown, Washington Post — After hearing emotional testimony from three survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a Georgia congressman introduced a bill Friday that would make…
By Catarina Saraiva, Bloomberg — The average White household in the U.S. today has amassed about seven times more wealth than the average Black household. The disparity widened in the…
Paying compensation to the descendants of slaves would not just right a historic wrong, it would transform the US economy for the better. By Aaron White, openDemocracy — When I…
May 19, 2021 — Grenada National Reparations Commission presents “Malcolm, Maurice and the Movement for Reparations in Grenada” Guest lecturer Dr. Ron Daniels, President, Moderated by Dr. Damian Eisenghower Greaves, Welcome by H.E Ambassador Arley S. Gill, Introduction by Dr. Nicole Philip-Dowe, Vote of Thanks by Earl Bousquet
For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe. By Clint Smith, The Atlantic Most of the people who come to Blandford…
Black Americans have been fighting for reparations tied to slavery for generations. Here’s what that fight looks like in 2021. By P.R. Lockhart, NBC News After decades of work from…
By Jay Dow With more Black Americans and people of color in positions at the highest echelons of American society and government, some feel the protests and civil unrest of…
The April 14, 2021 House Judiciary Committee markup vote on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act concluded with a 25-17 historic first…