Local and State Reparations: Repairing Black Communities Friday December 1, 2023 — Streamed live from the historic Second Baptist Church, Evanston, IL, “Local and State Reparations: Repairing Black Communities” A…
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November 22, 2023 — Robin Rue Simmons, Executive Director of FirstRepair and Dr. Ron Daniels, Convener of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) announced today that community stakeholders, reparations…
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LOS ANGELES (November 16, 2023) – The California Black Power Network (CBPN), Equal Justice Society (EJS), and six former members of the California Reparations Task Force – Dr. Cheryl Grills,…
![Ron Daniels, President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, speaks at the Africa Union reparation conference held in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. A Global Reparation Fund will be set up to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved centuries ago during the transatlantic slave trade, according to resolutions reached by delegates at the summit.](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/dr-ron-daniels-2023-ghana-reparations-summit-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
By Francis Kokutse , AP — Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana agreed Thursday to establish a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved…
![Graham Campbell, a Glasgow councillor, is a student on the course and was one of three advisers to Glasgow’s history of slavery report.](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/first-reparatory-justice-masters_graham-campbell-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
Partnership between Glasgow University and University of the West Indies was established as part of a reparative justice programme. By Sally Weale, The Guardian — The world’s first master’s degree…
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America’s best-known ornithologist written out of history – Wilson’s warbler, top, will be renamed, as will Audubon’s shearwater, named after John James Audubon. By Keiran Southern, The Times — Birds…
![The intersection of Market and Eagle streets, where Black Asheville’s cultural and financial center once stood before it was razed during urban renewal policies.](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/asheville-north-carolina-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
State legislation is seeking to impose limits on discussions of racism in North Carolina, even as one city ramps up its effort to compensate Black residents. By Brentin Mock, Bloomberg…
![Pastor Robert Turner of Empowerment Temple begins his monthly walk from Baltimore to the White House to raise awareness for reparations on Oct. 9, 2023.](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/robert-turner-walk-for-reparations-oct-9-2023-1-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
Rev. Robert Turner walks from Baltimore to DC each month to raise awareness of the need to compensate Black Americans for slavery, discrimination and broken promises. By John-John Williams IV,…
![Women perform in front of a monument to Zumbi dos Palmares, an important leader in the resistance to slavery in Brazil, on Black Awareness Day in Rio de Janeiro.](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/women-perform-zumbi-dos-palmares-monument-rio-de-janeiro-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
Attorneys with the Federal Public Ministry gave Banco do Brasil 15 days to apologize for its role in slavery and present a plan for some form of reparations. By Terrence…
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The movement to compensate American descendants of slavery has gone from 40-acres-and-a-mule to local governments. But who should get paid and how? By Rebekah Sager, Reckon — The current U.S….
![A Sale of Slaves, in Rio de Janeiro. The slave trade was made illegal in 1831 but the prohibition was widely flouted. Slavery itself was not abolished until 1888.](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/sale-of-slaves-in-rio-de-janeiro-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
Researchers are at last revealing how slavery and the slave trade shaped the country’s institutions. By Constance Malleret, The Guardian — On 27 July 1825, a brig called Espadarte (Swordfish)…
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By Roger Mckenzie, The Morning Star — Hundreds of activists gathered in central London on Saturday to chart a pathway towards reparative justice for the legacy of the trafficking and…