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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.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Reparations Demand: End Capitalism
23 Jul 2019
“We cannot negotiate with the system that facilitated our ancestors’ enslavement,” sad William C.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Voices for Black Reparations – Then and Now
15 Jul 2019
Democrats may have recently “discovered” reparations, but Black activists held a World Tribunal on Reparations in 1982, in New York City.
Mark P. Fancher
Theft of a Continent -- America’s Real Original Sin
10 Jul 2019
Before slavery there was the theft of territory from indigenous nations followed in short order by a campaign of genocide.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
All US White Groups are Implicated in Slavery and Black Oppression
09 Jul 2019
Katrina Browne, a descendant of Rhode Islanders who were the “largest slave-trading family in US history,” told a congressional committee considering the HR 40 reparations study bi
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
We are Already Late to the Great Black Reparations Debate
26 Jun 2019
The following essay was prepared for the 30th annual convention of NCOBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, held June 20 - 23 in Detroit.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Reparations Now Ripe for Full Congressional Debate
10 Jun 2019
The premier organization pushing for Black reparations holds its 30th annual convention, June 20 – 23, in Detroit. HR 40, the House Reparations Study bill, now has a companion measure in the U.S.