A city commission has mapped out its plan for delving into High Point’s history before making its case for reparations. By Pat Kimbrough, The High Point Enterprise, N.C. — A…
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By Helen Chickering, BPR — The newly formed Asheville-Buncombe Community Reparations Commission passed its first recommendation Tuesday night. The proposal by former city council member Keith Young, who has played a major…
By Hannah Mcleod, Smoky Mountain News — The eighth annual African Americans in Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia Conference will be held virtually from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m….
By Joel Burgess, Asheville Citizen Times — A $365,583 contract for a reparations project manager is facing criticism from the former elected official who wrote the city’s historic initiative. Ex-City…
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…
By Naomi Prioleau, BPR — Durham is showing what providing reparations for slavery could look like by actually trying to do it. The city’s budget for the next fiscal year…
By The Associated Press — Eleven U.S. mayors, from Los Angeles to tiny Tullahassee, Oklahoma, have pledged to pay reparations for slavery to a small group of Black residents in…
