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Voices for Black Reparations – Then and Now
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
15 Jul 2019
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Democrats may have recently “discovered” reparations, but Black activists held a World Tribunal on Reparations in 1982, in New York City. Speakers include Afeni Shakur, the former Black Panther and mother of Hip Hop legend Tupac Shakur. African People’s Socialist Party chairman Omali Yeshitelaputs the reparations struggle in historical perspective.

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