By Tyehimba Salandy, Trinicenter â Ten years ago, British âroyaltyâ, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla visited the Caribbean and locals prostrated before them. Local leaders made arrangements for them…
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International Meeting on Reparations Caracas, May 8th – 10th, 2018 DECLARATION We, activists, scholars, government representatives and social movements, gathered in the city of Caracas, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela from…
By TeleSur â Venezuela is joining the Caribbean Community (Caricom) in the fight for global slavery reparations, discussing appropriate compensation for centuries of injustice. During a speech entitled âReparations of…
Marijuana reform can help black communities. That doesnât make it âreparations.â By P.R. Lockhart â New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon is facing criticism after suggesting that giving black people access to marijuana licenses could serve as a âform of reparationsâ for black communities. The controversy started after Nixon, who is challenging current Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the stateâs upcoming Democratic primary, appeared at the NYC Cannabis Parade on MayâŚ
Hurston spent years turning an account of the transatlantic slave trade into a book. Then the manuscript languished for nearly nine decades. By Casey N. Cep â Captain William Foster left Mobile in secret and returned the same way. On July 8, 1860, he dropped anchor in the waters off the coast of Mississippi, hid his cargo below deck, slipped ashore, and travelled overland to fetch a tugboat from Alabama.âŚ
By Mona Zhang â âI don’t know whether you heard this or not, but I want to legalize cannabis in New York state,â said Cynthia Nixon on Saturday at the NYC Cannabis Parade. The crowd cheered for the candidate who is challenging Governor Andrew Cuomo. Nixon made marijuana a central part of her campaign when she announced adult-use legalization as her first policy plank in early April. On Saturday, she was one ofâŚ
By Daniel A. Gross â Mbakumua Hengari grew up in the 1970s on a farm in southern Africa, in what is today the nation of Namibia. The arid soil around his family’s homestead was sandy and grassy, a poor fit for staple crops, so he and seven siblings subsisted on a modest herd of cattle, sheep and goats. Hengari blames systematic racism for his family’s poverty â and he andâŚ
The white Southern press played a role in the racial terrorism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which saw thousands of African-Americans hanged, burned, drowned or beaten to…
An 1863 photograph that became known as âThe Scourged Backââ shows the whipping scars on Gordon, a former slave in Louisiana who escaped to Union lines. Credit: McPherson & Oliver,…
By Christopher F. Petrella â At 11:45 p.m. on November 6, 2012, Donald Trump tweeted that âthe electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.â Four years later, at 2:31 a.m. on November 9, 2016, the Associated Press projected that Donald Trump would win the state of Wisconsin and therefore surpass the required 270 Electoral College votes to become President-elect. The AP tweeted: âDonald Trump is elected President of the United States.â ThoughâŚ
By Aryeh Bernstein â Introduction: It has been two-and-a-half years since Ta-Nehisi Coates published âThe Case for Reparations,â his Polk Award-winning masterpiece, in The Atlantic. The article makes a detailed and riveting case for the principled justice of reparations payments to Black Americans by the American government for the accrued, exacerbated, and lingering damage of slavery and subsequent manifestations of national plunder of Black Americans, such as Jim Crow laws in the South, and structuralâŚ
African Global Reparations â April 21, 2018 Lecture and Q&A at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History with Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor, University of West Indies, Jamaica
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