
Adams’ comments come amid a renewed push for legislation that would create a reparations study commission in the Empire State, similar to a statewide panel established in California in 2020….
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.
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Adams’ comments come amid a renewed push for legislation that would create a reparations study commission in the Empire State, similar to a statewide panel established in California in 2020….
The group will make recommendations on compensation for institutional discrimination against African Americans by mid-2023. By Mark Eichmann, WHYY — Citing systemic racial disparities, racist practices and procedures, and institutional…
By Daniel Steyn, allAfrica — The President’s Fund is growing as apartheid’s victims wait The President’s Fund was established to pay reparations to victims of human rights abuses under apartheid….
By Scott Neuman, NPR — Shortly after going to work for the Tulsa Historical Society in 2001, Michelle Place recalls historian Richard Warner hefting a large cardboard box atop her…
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in 2020 to create a statewide panel to study reparations for Black Californians. By Kurtis Lee, The New York Times — When Gov. Gavin…
Inspiring stories about our past can open portals to the world that awaits us and help us dream what a world with reparations looks like. By Trevor Smith & Aria…
Reparations ‘would mean better for our children,’ one person told MarketWatch, while others say it would be ‘a game changer’ for paying debts, buying homes and building generational wealth By…
By Rachel Schlueter, The Daily Northwestern — The Evanston Reparations Committee hosted a town hall Saturday October 22, 2022 to address concerns about the city’s reparations program. The committee invited…
A little-known Civil War story illuminates America’s broken promise to Black America. By Bennett Parten, Zócalo Public Square — Americans get Sherman’s March all wrong. Ask anyone who’s seen Gone…
By Cassandra Berman — In the fall of 2014, Georgetown University’s student newspaper, the Hoya, ran an article by undergraduate columnist Matthew Quallen titled “Georgetown, Financed by Slave Trading.” Published the…