By Jeffrey McKinney, Black Enterprise — With support from famous actor Danny Glover, Black leaders and residents in San Francisco want to seize the Fillmore Heritage Center as reparations for slavery and discrimination against…
Until federal reparations happen, local organizations across the country are stepping up. By Ray Levy Uyeda, YES! Magazine — In 2019, Joseph Thompson, the director of multicultural ministries and assistant professor…
By Wayne Campbell — “After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no State, because the State arose as an instrument to…
By Juana Summers, NPR — Seven months ago, a House committee advanced a bill to study reparations for slavery, after more than three decades of efforts to build support for the idea….
By Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch — Robin Rue Simmons had been very curious about the truth of American life as a young person. But it was only after she finished high…
New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on a single firm, Franklin and Armfield, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people….
For a century and more, the conventional wisdom about the evolution of the financial systems embodied in institutions like Lehman Brothers was that modern American capitalism was built not on…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Even though it no longer appears as a major item of interest on the nightly news, the issue and pursuit of reparations remains a critical…
At COP26 the wealthy countries cast themselves as saviours, yet their efforts are hopelessly inadequate and will prolong the injustice. By George Monbiot, The Guardian — The story of the…
By Aarón Torres, Kansas City Star — When Gwen Grant looks at the socioeconomic gaps between Black people and white people in the Kansas City area, she feels troubled. “At…
By Will Jones, ABC7 Chicago — The City of Evanston has received more than 500 applications for its restorative housing program, according to city officials. Justin Marcoviche-Garnett applied on behalf…
By Jacob Fenston, NPR — Residents of the small city of Greenbelt, Md., have voted to create a commission to study options for paying reparations to Black and Native American…
