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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks by Randall Robinson

By Commentaries/Opinions, Reparations

I looked straight up and immediately saw the callous irony, wondering if the slaves who had helped to erect the structure might have bristled at it as quickly as I. The monumental fresco covering 4,664 square feet had been painted by Constantino Brumidi in 1864, just as the hideous 246-year-old American institution of slavery was drawing to a close. According to the United States Capitol Historical Society, Brumidi’s Apotheosis of George Washington had been painted in the eye of the Rotunda’s dome to glorify “the character of George Washington and the principles upon which the United States was founded.”

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The Obama/Caricom summit

By Commentaries/Opinions

While Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller presses ahead with arrangements for a state visit to Jamaica by President Barack Obama on April 9, plans are otherwise being finalised on a work agenda for a meeting between the US President and Heads of Government of the 15-member Caribbean Community.

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