By Ryan Thomas, TruthBeTold — Just last month, Greenbelt, a small Maryland suburb outside the nation’s capital, became the latest to join the movement for local reparations, as voters approved…
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By Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — In the wake of atrocities, violence, and discrimination, reparations can play an important role in improving public health and emotional healing,…
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media — One day after Darrick Hamilton testified before California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, the panel decided…
Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always…
The federal Liberal government says it is setting aside a whopping $40 billion to settle outstanding Indigenous child welfare lawsuits and to meet long-term needs for First Nations children and…
Scientists investigated whether genetic data collected from 50,000 volunteers lined up with historical shipping manifests. By Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine — A sweeping survey of more than 50,000 people’s DNA…
The Honorable John Conyers, who represented Detroit in Congress from 1965 until 2017, introduced HR 40 every congressional session from 1989. He worked to get cosponsors for the legislation for…
University officials say it has been helping descendants and a reconciliation fund will begin considering grant proposals this spring. By Susan Svrluga, The Washington Post — Georgetown University student leaders…
The panel has a monumental challenge: crafting a historic reparations proposal that earns the support of Black Californians and a majority of California lawmakers. By Taryn Luna, LA Times —…
By Michael Burlingame, HNN — Six weeks after Lincoln’s death, Frederick Douglass described him as “emphatically the black man’s president, the first chief executive “to show any respect for the…
Prince Charles has acknowledged the ‘atrocity of slavery’. What Barbados really wants is reparations
The past is very present – merely acknowledging that slavery happened is the easy bit, but true accountability means much more than that. By Nadine White, The Independent — Prince…
Demo organiser David Denny from the campaign group Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration said Prince Charles’ visit to Barbados was an ‘insult’ as he said the Royal Family benefited…
