State and local governments are leading reparations efforts across the country to address the racial wealth gap and compensate Black Americans for the harms of slavery and institutional racism. By…
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IN SUMMARY A task force is helping state officials examine how African Americans have been harmed by slavery and systemic racism and, weighing that, how the state should respond. What…
By Michael Harriot, TheGrio — On Sept. 30, 2020, 401 years after human traffickers landed in Virginia and sold Africans to English settlers, California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 3121. The legislation…
Statement by the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC). The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) is comprised of leading African American activists, scholars, professionals and experts in the fields…
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 Paul B. Johnson, The High Point Enterprise, N.C. — The city moved closer to the formation of a reparation commission to address the history of local racial discrimination and…
Black Americans have been much more vulnerable to COVID-19 due to the wealth gap and various socioeconomic inequities that are the result of centuries of segregation, discrimination and slavery. By…
Evanston’s bold action has begun the prodigious process of repairing centuries of damage to Black people from the pernicious reality of racism. By Chicago Sun Times — In November 2019,…
How the meticulous bookkeeping of two sisters led to reparations for Black people across the country
One program that benefited helps expose D.C. teenagers to nature, often for the first time. By Theresa Vargas, The Washington Post — The teenagers show up each Saturday to explore…
A few months into a reparations program, Evanston, Illinois, is facing pushback from community members and legal pressure from conservative nonprofits. By Michela Moscufo Recently, Priscilla Giles, a retired teacher of…
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…
