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…
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The anonymous donor said that while investigating the origins of their family’s wealth, they discovered their great-grandfather had owned six enslaved people in Bourbon County, Ky. By Bill Chappell, NPR…
The Virginia Theological Seminary is giving cash to descendants of Black Americans who were forced to work there. The program is among the first of its kind. By Will Wright,…
Property seized from a Black family a century ago is being returned to their descendants. By Michael Scott Moore, The New Yorker More than a hundred years ago, on a…
By The Associated Press — The faith community should guide the way on reparations for America’s history of slavery and racial discrimination and help the nation’s process of reconciliation and…
By Carla Hinton, Oklahoman — Editor’s note: The following may include first-person accounts of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre contain graphic depictions and antiquated racial terminology. We have chosen not…
By DeNeen L. Brown, Washington Post — After hearing emotional testimony from three survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a Georgia congressman introduced a bill Friday that would make…
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
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,…
