By Richard Sudan In this handout picture taken 15 August 1947, British Governor-General Lord Mountbatten (C) gestures as he rides in a carriage alongside Lady Edwina Mountbatten prior to witnessing…
Danny Glover speaks to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on March 29.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD APRIL 23, 2016 Credit Monica Ramos The reparations movement, which calls for compensating the descendants of generations of enslaved Americans going back 250 years, has failed to gain traction…
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America Jumoke Ifetayo, National Male Co-chair Diana Kimble, National Female Co-Chair (601) 885- 3081 P.O. Box 90604, Washington, DC 20090 info@ncobraonline.org REPARATIONS NOW:…
by Brian Jones A 1930 unemployment rally at local Communist Party headquarters in Washington, DC. Library of Congress In a series of recent articles in the Atlantic, columnist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates criticized US presidential…
By Jonathan Freedland In an interview at Columbia University, where she’s dean of social science, Nelson described DNA as containing a social power as well as a biological one. “We…
Sir Hilary Beckles presents model for reparations at Oxford University THE chairman of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Reparations Commission, Sir Hilary Beckles, says Caribbean countries are not looking for “handouts”…
By Syed Mohammad Ali The writer holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and is the author of Development, Poverty and Power in Pakistan, available from Routledge Conspiracy theorists…
By Jason Hickel Colonialism is one of those things you’re not supposed to discuss in polite company – at least not north of the Mediterranean. Most people feel uncomfortable about…
Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears America’s forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South A coffle of slaves being marched…
N”COBRA-Chicago’s Press Conference Address on the Omissions by the Pope on His Visit to America Good Evening. N’COBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, Chicago Chapter would…
By Alma Carten Am I not a man emblem used during the campaign to abolish slavery. The image is from a book from 1788, so there can be no effective…