Center for Reparations Research 60 Second Jingle This audio is 1 of 3 radio jingles produced to announce the launch of the Centre for Reparations Research at the University of…
Center for Reparations Research 60 Second Symposium Ad This audio is 1 of 3 radio jingles produced to announce the launch of the Centre for Reparations Research at the University…
Center for Reparations Research 30 Second Plenary Ad This audio is 1 of 3 radio jingles produced to announce the launch of the Centre for Reparations Research at the University…
Reparations Made Simple (or almost everybody’s Guide to Reparations) The campaign to secure “Reparations” for the multiplicity of genocides and crimes that have been committed against the sons and daughters…
CALL FOR BLACK PAPERS Black Politics, Reparations, and Movement Building in the Era of #45 Co-editors: Barbara Ransby, Editor of Souls, President of the National Women’s Studies Association, University of…
Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. September 23, 2017. Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles issues the following statement on the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria: “Hurricane Irma’s fury preceded Maria’s by a deadly Caribbean second. Together they constitute the familiar sound of death and destruction reminiscent of a colonial past that clings to the present and is determined to possess and own the Caribbean future.
What Is in Your Backpack? We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest Verene A. Shepherd, Social Historian 47th Congressional Black Caucus Reparations Issue Forum Friday, September 22nd, 3:00 – 5:00 PM…
y Brandon Ellington Patterson — Last month’s torch-lit white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, a response to the planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from a public park, kickstarted a national dialogue about how communities should address this nation’s centuries-long history of violence and discrimination against African Americans. Democratic politicians and others, pushing back against the old arguments about maintaining our “heritage,” have called for the removal of additional Confederate statues and monuments…
September 23, 2017 Post Update: Professor Verene Shepherd’s CBC, Washington D.C. speech available here Professor Verene Shepherd, Social Historian and Director of the Centre for Reparation Research at…
1. Validation of Our Humanity, 2. Completion of the Emancipation Process, 3. Compensation Must Be Proportionate to the Crime, 4. Reparations Must Produce the Just Society, 5. Africans Must Exercise Autonomy Throughout the Process, 6. We Must Repair Ourselves, 7. Self-repair Will Generate Mass Support for Reparations, 8. Reparations Must Be a Broad Movement, 9. The Mass of Our People Must Be Intimately Involved, 10. Network and Establish a New International Legal Structure