In the last Congress, leaders within the Democratic Party demonstrated their political will for a Reparations Commission.
U.S. reparations
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U.S. mayors pledge restitution for slavery
Eleven U.S. mayors, from Los Angeles to tiny Tullahassee, Oklahoma, have pledged to pay reparations for slavery to small groups of Black residents in their cities…
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Critical race theory backlash would keep the truth hidden
Critical race theory is really just a proxy battle in a much larger war over dueling narratives…
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100 years later Tulsa still seeking justice
White settlers of Tulsa carried out a pogrom targeted Greenwood, as Black Tulsa was known, a community so prosperous and self-contained that Booker T. Washington dubbed it ‘Black Wall Street.’
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MSR Forefront caps Black History Month with a deeper dive into reparations
On Thursday, February 25, MSR ForeFront will delve further into the topic of U.S. reparations.
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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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Early reparation ideas for freed slaves
The idea for land redistribution for former slaves had been tossed about by abolitionists long before it was implemented with the agreement worked out in Savannah between the U.S. government and 20 Black preachers (see last week’s story “The origin of a revolutionary idea: 40 acres and a mule”). There were several proposals brought forward, […]
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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Leads U.S. Reparations Bill H.R. 40
‘Has anyone addressed the question of slavery and its comprehensive impact on Black Americans in this country? This is what H.R. 40 will do.’
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The limiting framework of reparations
Reparations become a limiting framework in which justice is conceived of as coming almost exclusively from existing legal and power structures.
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The origin of a revolutionary idea: 40 acres and a mule
The original idea for redistributing 40 acres of formerly Confederate land to newly freed African slaves was the brainchild of a group of 20 Black preachers
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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.