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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.
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.