47th Annual Legislative Caucus of the Congressional Black Caucus, September 20 – September 23, 2017, Walter E Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Valuing Black Lives Summit Friday, September…
When he addressed the Southern Christian Leadership Council in 1967, in his speech, “Where Do We Go From Here?” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. noted “ Of the good things in life, the Negro has approximately one half those of whites. of the bad things of life, he has twice those of whites. Thus half of all Negroes live in substandard housing. And Negroes have half the income of whites…
Friday, March 3, 2017 – Students of African descent and their friends at Havard and Universities in the Boston area will assemble to demand reparations to pay black student debt.
In the spirit of the Durban Declaration and Program of Action of 2001, which declared the Atlantic Slave Trade and chattel slavery as crimes against humanity, to directly confront racism, we urge the Women’s March 8 mobilization to embrace the growing national and global movement for reparatory justice.
Thursday, February 16, 2017, The Commission to Study Reparations Proposals for African Americans Act. Hosted by The Institute of the Black World 21st Century in Conjunction with the Office of Congressman John Conyers Jr., Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus
See the signatories below 26 September 2016 In the face of rising racism, scholars, activists and civil society organisations express their support for the UN Working Group on People of…
Address by Sir Hilary Beckles, chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission to the NAARC’s Reparations Town Hall in Atlanta June 11, 2016 (Delivered by Don Rojas on behalf of Sir…
June 13, 2016 Press Release Renewed Push for Reparations Was Focus of Atlanta Meetings Members of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) were enthusiastically received in Atlanta June 10th…
New York, March 8, 2016…The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) applauds and supports a resolution sponsored by Illinois State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford which calls on President Obama…
By V.P. Franklin The article “John Hope Franklin: Race and the Meaning of America” by Harvard University’s Drew Gilpin Faust in the 17 December 2015 issue of the New York…
In the spirit of the Durban Declaration of 2001 which declared the Atlantic Slave Trade and chattel slavery as crimes against humanity, scores of representatives from the CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC), the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) and representatives of emerging Commissions in Martinique, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Canada, United Kingdom and Europe gathered in New York, April 9-11, 2015 for a historic National/International Summit….
En el espíritu de la Declaración de Durban de 2001 que declaró la trata de esclavos del Atlántico y la esclavitud como crímenes contra la humanidad.