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Why the TPP Is a Terrible Deal for Most Americans

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

Trade agreements boost economic growth, while destroying lives and livelihoods. By Rep. John Conyers — Earlier this year, former Florida governor Jeb Bush travelled to my hometown of Detroit to…

NAARC Rolls Out Preliminary 10 Point Reparations Plan

By NAARCNAARC News, Reparations

The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) Rolls Out a Reparations Plan at the 2015 Congressional Black Caucus Conference. Preamble: No amount of material resources or monetary compensation can ever be sufficient restitution for the spiritual, mental, cultural and physical damages inflicted on Africans by centuries of the MAAFA, the holocaust of enslavement and the institution of chattel slavery…

My Reparations Bill — HR 40

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions, Reparations

By Cong. John Connyers

In January of 1989, I first introduced the bill H.R. 40, Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. I have re-introduced HR 40 every Congress since 1989, and will continue to do so until it’s passed into law.