Rev. Robert Turner walks from Baltimore to DC each month to raise awareness of the need to compensate Black Americans for slavery, discrimination and broken promises. By John-John Williams IV,…
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Attorneys with the Federal Public Ministry gave Banco do Brasil 15 days to apologize for its role in slavery and present a plan for some form of reparations. By Terrence…
The movement to compensate American descendants of slavery has gone from 40-acres-and-a-mule to local governments. But who should get paid and how? By Rebekah Sager, Reckon — The current U.S….
By Roger Mckenzie, The Morning Star — Hundreds of activists gathered in central London on Saturday to chart a pathway towards reparative justice for the legacy of the trafficking and…
The oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Massacre is a key witness for a national movement gaining momentum. By Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post — Her mother’s scream awoke the…
Banco do Brasil, one of country’s biggest banks, under scrutiny as institutions called to account for role in trafficking of Africans. By Constance Malleret, The Guardian — Brazilian prosecutors have…
Fulfilling its obligation as a Town Committee established by the Town Council and Town Manager Paul Bockelman, the African Heritage Reparation Assembly of Amherst (AHRA) today released its final report…
The harm caused by transatlantic chattel slavery is vast, and its repercussions continue to resonate in the lives of the descendants of the enslaved. Scholars have long worked to document,…
More than 200 people rallied outside San Francisco’s City Hall to urge supervisors to act on reparations for Black residents. By Janie Har, AP — Reparations advocates urged San Francisco…
Georgetown University and the Jesuits have made a $27 million pledge to the descendants of enslaved people sold to fund the school. By Iman Milner, Black Enterprise — Georgetown University…
Lloyd’s of London and Church of England also to be approached over role in past exploitation. By Donna Ferguson, The Guardian — Caribbean nations are preparing formal letters demanding that…
Caribbean activists helped make reparations a mainstream concept. Now they hope ex-colonial powers will commit to paying, even if it’s not the trillions of dollars slavery is estimated to have…
