I looked straight up and immediately saw the callous irony, wondering if the slaves who had helped to erect the structure might have bristled at it as quickly as I. The monumental fresco covering 4,664 square feet had been painted by Constantino Brumidi in 1864, just as the hideous 246-year-old American institution of slavery was drawing to a close. According to the United States Capitol Historical Society, Brumidi’s Apotheosis of George Washington had been painted in the eye of the Rotunda’s dome to glorify “the character of George Washington and the principles upon which the United States was founded.”
BERLIN – It was 1943 and the Nazis were deporting Greece’s Jews to death camps in Poland. Hitler’s genocidal accountants reserved a chilling twist: The Jews had to pay their train fare.
A TRIAD OF IDENTITY ISSUES: The Enduring Cry for Freedom and Justice By Patrick Robinson, Justice at the International Court of Justice, Hague, The Netherlands. I speak today…
Keynote Speech Delivered at the United Nations on the Occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Theme “Learning from Historical Tragedies to Combat Racial Discrimination Today”…
i/WE feel very blessed to offer, for review and consideration, this “Contribution and Black-Print to the (Proposed) Ten Point Program: Calling for Reparations for Africa’s Ascendants…
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This year has already seen some important and potentially historic developments in the campaign for reparations.
Article 14 of the United Nations General Assembly’s Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparations provides “an adequate..
Concerning the issue of Reparations for Native Genocide and Slavery, Barbados and other CARICOM states will go the route of diplomacy and not protest.
History, my friends, is being made everyday: a phenomenal thing to truly grasp. Historic “shifts,” impacting how we think, what we think and (hopefully) ever nudging the human race to forge new, more resilient paths to justice. Sometimes, however, those shifts are so rapid and so unassuming that their significance can oft times evade us.
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