September 7, 2020 — A Black Labor Day Forum “The Theft of Black Labor and Extraction of Black Wealth: How the Exploitation and Oppression of Black People Built Capitalist America – The Case for Reparations and HR-40”.
September 6, 2020 — A Labor Day Weekend Conversation on Reparations with the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC). Hosted by Fund for Reparations NOW! (FFRN!).
June 19, 2020 — The National African American Reparations Commission Juneteenth Virtual Forum “COVID-19 and the Killings of Black People, Advancing the Demand for Reparations and HR-40”.
May 31, 2020 — NAARC, ACLU and HRW “Their Blood Cries Out: The Tulsa Massacre and Destruction of Black Wall Street, The Case for Reparations and HR 40”
January 30, 2020, Washington, DC — Attny. Nkechi Taifa’s reparations speech at the Howard University School of Law.
November 6, 2019 — Ben and Jerry’s Support of HR 40 Might Mainstream the Reparations Discussion.
November 2, 2019, Charleston, SC — NAARC and ACLU Reparations Forum “From Enslavement to Reparations”.
June 19, 2019, Washington, DC — NAARC and ACLU Reparations Forum “HR-40 and the Promise of Reparations”.
June 19, 2019, Washington, DC — Congressional Hearing on H.R. 40, Legislation to Study Slavery Reparations.
March 16, 2019, MSNBC — Joy Reid is joined by Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee and Rev. Mark Thompson to discuss H.R. 40 and the reparations movement.
January 19, 2018, Philadelphia, PA — Attny. Nkechi Taifa at the 2018 Sparer Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania Law School (Penn Law).
January 19, 2018, Philadelphia, PA — Panel discussion “Building the Ivory Tower: How Institutions Benefited from Slavery” at the 2018 Sparer Symposium at Pen Law.
Recent reparations news and articles. View all reparations posts here.
UN secretary general says no country has comprehensively accounted for the past. By Aamna Mohdin, The Guardian — A UN report calling on countries to consider financial reparations for transatlantic…
More than 200 people rallied outside San Francisco’s City Hall to urge supervisors to act on reparations for Black residents. By Janie Har, AP — Reparations advocates urged San Francisco…
Georgetown University and the Jesuits have made a $27 million pledge to the descendants of enslaved people sold to fund the school. By Iman Milner, Black Enterprise — Georgetown University…
Lloyd’s of London and Church of England also to be approached over role in past exploitation. By Donna Ferguson, The Guardian — Caribbean nations are preparing formal letters demanding that…
Caribbean activists helped make reparations a mainstream concept. Now they hope ex-colonial powers will commit to paying, even if it’s not the trillions of dollars slavery is estimated to have…
Patrick Robinson says reparation for transatlantic slavery ‘is required by history and is required by law’. By Aamna Mohdin, The Guardian — A leading judge at the international court of…
Originally published by The Guardian, June 17, 2020. Firms will make payments to benefit the BAME community and promote diversity. By Kevin Rawlinson — Two major British firms have pledged…
“It’s about PR. It’s not actually dealing with the problem.” By Linda Givetash, NBC News — Too little, too late? As a number of British institutions and corporations respond to Black…
A major DNA study has shed new light on the fate of millions of Africans who were traded as slaves to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. Source…
Florida’s new standards for teaching social studies include throwbacks to an interpretation of slavery as benign or inconsequential. By Calvin Schermerhorn, Professor of History, Arizona State University — If there…
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