Reparations Resource Center

Sep 10 2019

With Reparations, We Must Demand Repair—and Heal Ourselves

By IBW21 Editors' Choice, Reparations

Note: This is part two of this six-part series by YES! that explores the plurality of reparations that includes Black people’s spiritual and psychological healing. By David Ragland YES! — The first panel at the National Grassroots Reparations Convening in Ferguson, Missouri, earlier this month was titled “Spirituality, Healing and Reparations.” Facilitator Rev. Emma Jordan-Simpson, executive director at Fellowship of Reconciliation, the organization cohosting the four-day convening, opened the discussion…

Sep 10 2019

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Slavery and the Origins of the American Police State

By IBW21 Editors' Choice, Reparations

From the beginning, some Americans have been able to move more freely than others. By Ben Fountain, Medium — They were called patrollers or, variously, “paterollers,” “paddyrollers,” or “patterolls,” and they were meant to be part of the solution to Colonial America’s biggest problem, labor. Unlike Great Britain, which had a large, basically immobile peasant class that could be forced to work for subsistence wages, there weren’t enough cheap bodies…

Sep 04 2019

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CFA and NAARC Present a Special Ron Brown Series Forum: Engaging Africa in the Global Reparations Movement

By IBW21 Events, NAARC Posts, News & Current Affairs, Reparations

What: The Constituency for Africa (CFA), Mel Foote, President and The National African America Reparations Commission (NAARC), Dr. Ron Daniels, Convener Present A Special Ron Brown Series Forum “Engaging Africa in the Global Reparations Movement”. Presentations by African Ambassadors, Members of the National African American Reparations Commission and Leaders from the Continental African Diaspora. Keynote Speaker, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies and Chairman, CARICOM Reparations…

Sep 04 2019

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400 Years in Virginia. 500 Years in Slavery.

By IBW21 Reparations

People of African descent have been ‘here’ longer than the English colonies By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire — In August 2018, the National Newspaper Publishers Association began a series on the transatlantic slave trade. The series started in conjunction with the annual United Nations International Day of Remembrance. With the observance of the first African landing in America, some question whether it’s the 400th or 500th anniversary. Historians point out that…

Sep 04 2019

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The University of Glasgow is one of the oldest in the world but its new building was completed in the late 19th Century

Glasgow University’s ‘bold’ move to pay back slave trade profits

By IBW21 Reparations

By Hannah Capella, BBC News — Glasgow University has agreed to raise and spend £20m in reparations after discovering it benefited by millions of pounds from the slave trade. It is believed to be the first institution in the UK to implement such a “programme of restorative justice”. The money will be raised and spent over the next 20 years on setting up and running the Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for Development…

Sep 04 2019

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Rep. Jackson Lee reflects on slavery, talks about reparations for black Americans

By IBW21 Reparations, Video/Audio

Sheila Jackson Lee reflects on the 400th anniversary of slavery and discusses plans for reparations for black Americans, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports. Also Watch: NAARC and ACLU Juneteenth 2019 Forum on H.R. 40 Juneteenth 2019 Congressional Hearing on H.R. 40

Sep 04 2019

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What Reparations for Slavery Might Look Like in 2019

By IBW21 Reparations

The idea of economic amends for past injustices and persistent disparities is getting renewed attention. Here are some formulas for achieving the aim. By Patricia Cohen, The New York Times — If you’re surprised that the issue of reparations for black Americans has taken so long to resolve, blame the president. President Andrew Johnson. As the Civil War wound down in 1865, Gen. William T. Sherman made the promise that would come to be…

Sep 03 2019

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State Rep. Chris Rabb, D-Philadelphia, speaks at a Capitol news conference on House and Senate proposals to abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvani

This Philly lawmaker wants Pennsylvania to offer reparations to its black residents

By IBW21 News & Current Affairs, Reparations

By Stephen Caruso, The Pennsylvania Capital-Star — One Pennsylvania lawmaker is making his own case for reparations — not just for slavery, but for 400 years of institutional racism. Rep. Chris Rabb, D-Philadelphia, released a memo last week asking for his colleagues’ support for a bill providing tax credits or other benefits to African Americans as well as “targeted geographic communities.” Citing Pennsylvania’s own state Constitution, the memo says that “it is…

Aug 30 2019

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How is slavery taught in America? Schools struggle to teach it well.

By IBW21 Editors' Choice, Reparations

Teaching America’s truth For generations, children have been spared the whole, terrible reality about slavery’s place in U.S. history, but some schools are beginning to strip away the deception and evasions. By Joe Heim, The Washington Post — Pacing his classroom in north-central Iowa, Tom McClimon prepared to deliver an essential truth about American history to his eighth-grade students. He stopped and slowly raised his index finger in front of…

Aug 29 2019

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UWI’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles

UWI Vice Chancellor says reparations agreement scratches the surface

By IBW21 News & Current Affairs, Reparations

The University of the West Indies in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, has broken the global reparations glass ceiling. In the signing of a landmark Memorandum of Understanding on August 23, 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland the two universities’ Vice-Chancellors opened a new era in the global reparations movement. The University of the West Indies is an old contributor to the reparations movement. In the last five years it blazed…