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Mireille Fanon Mendes France
20 years After Durban: Africans and Afro-Descendants Colonized or Emancipated?
26 Sep 2021
The 20th anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) is an opportunity to analyze the state of African descended people.
Broderick Dunlap
A Dose of Reality for the #ADOS Movement
06 May 2021
Instead of showing solidarity with the third world, ADOS makes it clear that they want their share of the spoils of imperialism.
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.
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.
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.