Bonny Ibhawoh, The Conversation Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, left, and actor Danny Glover, right, testify about reparation for the descendants of slaves during a hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Capitol Hill on June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais). Featured Image [dropcap]A[/dropcap]merica’s failure to understand, acknowledge and resolve the continuing catastrophe of slavery is […]
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The Truth Behind ’40 Acres and a Mule’ | PBS
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PBS IMAGE: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Featured Image [dropcap]We’ve[/dropcap] all heard the story of the “40 acres and a mule” promise to former slaves. It’s a staple of black history lessons, and it’s the name of Spike Lee’s film company. The promise was the first systematic attempt to provide a form of […]
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Americans are totally fine with reparations, just not for slavery | Quartz
Annalisa Merelli, Quartz [dropcap]Since[/dropcap] the second half of last century, countries like Germany, Austria, France, South Africa, and Canada have amended past wrongs by paying reparations to their victims. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The US, too, has supported reparations as a form of restorative justice. After World War II, it supported Jewish victims of the Holocaust in […]
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America doesn’t need another apology for slavery, but atonement | Dallas News
Joyce King, Contributor, Dallas News [dropcap]Black[/dropcap] History Month, 2019, has been a sobering reality check for millions of white Americans who are expressing shock and outrage at everything from elected officials donning blackface to a beloved movie star’s admission he once wanted to take revenge on a random black man. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] America does not […]
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Slavery Reparations Could Cost Up to $14 Trillion, According to New Calculation | Newsweek
Doug Main , Newsweek The Permanent Memorial to Honor the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, in New York City, acknowledges a tragic chapter in the nation’s history. Some have argued that reparations for slavery would help heal long-festering racial strife. EDUARDO MUNOZ / REUTERS. Featured Image [dropcap]In[/dropcap] 1865, toward the end of […]
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How Cory Booker’s “Baby Bond” Proposal Could Transform the Reparations Debate | The New Yorker
Benjamin Wallace Wells , The New Yorker Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing for Rex Tillerson, former chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp. and secretary of state nominee for President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017. (Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images). Featured Image [dropcap]Cory[/dropcap] […]
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The Case for Reparations | The Atlantic (2014)
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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