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…
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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…
Same date that President Lincoln was murdered in 1865! I was blessed to speak on a Webinar panel on the evening of April 14, 2021, to discuss H. R. 40,…
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…
To say I was an “interesting” teenager is an understatement. Once upon a revolutionary time, I was a Black Power teen who lived in the once Chocolate City but went to…
If acknowledgement is the first step toward acceptance, reparations for Black people in America has taken a major step forward. The Feb. 17th House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Reparations is one…
An Ode to Mi Corona, Featuring Yvette Modestin (Lepolata Aduke Apoukissi). The HairStory Project — A multimodal art experience providing context for the ongoing debate of natural hair and celebrating…
By Sean Bascom, PSU Vanguard — In the late morning of Saturday, October 17, a group of about 25 mostly white protesters gathered in a grassy lot next to Dawson…
