Stacy M. Brown, Black Press USA “The odds against success are great but given the meager gains to date, it’s just as fruitful to argue for reparations as anything else and besides it is a just cause,” said Dr. Mary Frances Berry, a Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and the author 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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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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