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Joshua F.J. Inwood and Anna Livia Brand
Slave-built Infrastructure and Reparations
10 Feb 2021
US cities from Atlanta to New York City still use buildings, roads, ports and rail lines built by enslaved people.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Reparations Not Yet a “Mainstream” Demand
08 Dec 2020
Reparations “hasn’t reached the point where there’s really a discussion among white politicians” on the merits of the issue, said Zuri Arman Kent-Smith, a writer and activist with
Michael Harriot
The Great White Heist
16 Sep 2020
Just because enslaving and stealing labor from Black people was perfectly legal prior to 1868, America should not get to ignore descendants of the people who supplied this nation with 246 years of
Deutsche Welle
Burundi to Demand Colonial Reparations From Germany and Belgium
19 Aug 2020
The East African country is a former German colony and lived under Belgian rule until gaining independence almost 60 years ago.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Reparations Day” on August 15
03 Aug 2020
The December 12th Movement has called for nationwide demonstrations demanding Black reparations on August 15, which is the 18thanniversary of the 2002 “Millions for Reparations” rally in Washington
William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen
Coronavirus is Making the Case for Black Reparations Clearer Than Ever
13 May 2020
The COVID-19 crisis only heightens the urgency of black reparations, which is now more essential than ever.
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Remembering Callie House, an Early Reparations Advocate
11 Mar 2020
Her grassroots organization, the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association lobbied for federal legislation in support of pensions for formerly enslaved persons.
Jay Reeves
America’s Last Slave Ship Could Offer a Case for Reparations
23 Oct 2019
The riches that accrued from the last US slave shipment are in plain site of the voyage’s descendants in Mobile, Alabama.
Prime Minister Gaston Browne
Reparations for Development and Justice for the Caribbean
23 Oct 2019
The labor costs alone of our forebears would have created a debt of approximately two trillion dollars, which must be repaid.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Reparations Rising – With Permission from White Democrats
01 Aug 2019
Black people’s support for reparations has soared in sync with the concept’s receptivity among white Democrats and establishment Black politicians.