Inspiring stories about our past can open portals to the world that awaits us and help us dream what a world with reparations looks like. By Trevor Smith & Aria…
Reparations ‘would mean better for our children,’ one person told MarketWatch, while others say it would be ‘a game changer’ for paying debts, buying homes and building generational wealth By…
By Rachel Schlueter, The Daily Northwestern — The Evanston Reparations Committee hosted a town hall Saturday October 22, 2022 to address concerns about the city’s reparations program. The committee invited…
A little-known Civil War story illuminates America’s broken promise to Black America. By Bennett Parten, Zócalo Public Square — Americans get Sherman’s March all wrong. Ask anyone who’s seen Gone…
The framers of the Constitution never mentioned a right to vote. They didn’t forget. They intentionally left it out. By Morgan Marietta, The Conversation — If you’re looking for the…
Until Democrats tell it like it is, their electoral majorities will continue to be fragile. By Robert Reich, The Guardian — A milder version of Liz Truss’s economically induced vanishing act…
A record number of Black candidates will run for office in the 2022 midterm elections including 16 Democrats and three Republicans. By Derek Major, Black Enterprise — A record number…
Jackson used “originalism” against the right’s “race-neutral” voting theory in oral arguments on “Merrill v. Milligan.” By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout — During the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Merrill v. Milligan, a case that…
By Cassandra Berman — In the fall of 2014, Georgetown University’s student newspaper, the Hoya, ran an article by undergraduate columnist Matthew Quallen titled “Georgetown, Financed by Slave Trading.” Published the…
By David Comissiong — Now that our Caribbean governments have launched a serious effort to secure the payment of Reparations for the tremendous damage inflicted on the people of Africa…
In his speech to the UN General Assembly, the Colombian president highlighted the necessity of ending the war on drugs and saving the environment. By Peoples Dispatch — On the…
Supporters of republicanism in the Caribbean say is part of a larger reckoning with the legacy of British colonialism and the atrocities of the slave trade in the region. By…