Friday, April 22, 2022 — A Public Discussion and Reflections on the Historic 2015 International Reparations Summit With the National African American Reparations Commission and the Caricom Reparations Commission. See…
![National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) and CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC)](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/naarc-caricom-step-repeat-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
In the middle of April, 2015 at York College in New York City, some 200 reparations leaders from 22 countries came together in a strong show of international solidarity at…
Above is a video version of the interactive map on Slate that demonstrates the scale of the transatlantic slave trade. By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the…
![A 19th-century engraving depicting slave trade routes in the 17th and 18th centuries.](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/slave-trade-routes-17-18th-centuries-v2-cropped-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
While it is difficult to say how much of the royal family’s wealth is owed to the slave trade, the past links date back to the 16th century. By Tobi…
![Formerly enslaved people in Cumberland Landing, Va., 1862.](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/formerly-enslaved-people-cumberland-landing-va-1862-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
Unraveling the characteristics of race today requires an understanding of history. By Jamelle Bouie, NYT — In my Jan. 29 newsletter, I wrote a little about the development of the…
![An 18th-century engraving depicting cross sections of a ship used to transport enslaved people from Africa to the Americas and the Caribbean](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/slave-ship-illustration-1-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
Scientists investigated whether genetic data collected from 50,000 volunteers lined up with historical shipping manifests. By Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine — A sweeping survey of more than 50,000 people’s DNA…
![The interior of the Lloyd's of London building is seen in the City of London financial district in London, Britain, April 16, 2019.](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/interior-of-lloyds-of-london-building-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
By Carolyn Cohn and Huw Jones, Reuters — British ships ferried over 3 million enslaved African people across the Atlantic Ocean. Lloyd’s of London insured many of those vessels, the…
The Middle Passage and Black Latin America is a documentary short on the history of the Transatlantic Slave trade, how it was started, developed, and the importance of the Spanish…
![Cong. John Conyers of Detroit, honorable host of the CBC’s Reparations Braintrust and author of HR40 welcomes members of the NAARC and Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles.](https://reparationscomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/naarc-rolls-out-preliminary-10-point-reparations-plan.jpg)
The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) Rolls Out a Reparations Plan at the 2015 Congressional Black Caucus Conference. Preamble: No amount of material resources or monetary compensation can ever be sufficient restitution for the spiritual, mental, cultural and physical damages inflicted on Africans by centuries of the MAAFA, the holocaust of enslavement and the institution of chattel slavery…