By Sean Douglas Anthony Carmona, President of Trinidad & Tobago, yesterday publicly supported a call to have European governments, whose countries benefited from slavery in the West Indies, to pay…
This July 14, 2017 photo shows a memorial by Woodrow Nash for the German Coast Uprising at the Whitney Plantation in Edgard, La. After the uprising, slaves who participated were…
By Travis Gettys White supremacists have been promoting the myth that the first slaves brought to the Americas were Irish, not African — but a historian says there’s simply no…
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It is now widely accepted and shown by scholars that the permanent dislocation and forced transportation of over 30 million enslaved Africans to the Caribbean and the wider Americas, and…
By Bert Wilkinson At the just concluded meeting of Caribbean Community leaders in Grenada, the question of making European nations that had participated in the transatlantic slave trade compensate the…
By Al Calloway Typically, too many African American political leaders, preachers and so-called intellectuals shy away from the issue of Reparations. As a result, the black body politic has not…
By Dr. Jahi Issa and Reggie Mabry The moral case for Black reparations has effectively been made, but the legal argument has met much frustration in the courts. The authors…
Above Photo: From thenextsystem.org William A. Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel…
A conversation with Chinyere Tutashinda of the BlackOUT Collective. By Sarah Jaffe Juneteenth is not a federal holiday—but it should be. It is the day that the news of emancipation…
The assault on Afro-Descendants in Colombia, South America. People’s Organization for Progress March/Rally for Reparations. The Bail Bond Reform Movement in New York – Vantage Point Radio Show hosted by Dr….
By Stefan Richards Abstract: Reparation refers to the repairing of damage through the payment of money or through other methods employed by the offending party. This paper adds to the discussion…