The $50 million Open Road Fund, financed by the Bush Foundation headquartered in St. Paul, is intended to address race-based economic disparities and cultivate Black wealth.
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Reparations? Not until hostilities cease
We’ve gone from disbelief and surrender to fervent belief and critical mass activism to secure reparations.
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Slave-built infrastructure still creates U.S. wealth, suggesting reparations should cover past and current value of slavery
The fact that centuries-old relics of slavery still support the economy of the United States suggests that reparations for slavery would need to go beyond government payments.
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The Ebenezer Creek Massacre, a prelude to ‘40 Acres and a Mule’
Thousands of freed slaves drowned at Ebenezer Creek after the Union army betrayed and abandoned them.
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Reparations are essential to eliminate the wealth gap between black and white Americans
This racial wealth gap is a result not only of the horrors of slavery but also policies – such as Jim Crow laws, redlining and modern-day mass incarceration – that followed.