A Duke University professor of economics called for $14 trillion in reparations for the descendants of American slavery this past week, which equates to approximately $350,000 per recipient.
• https://www.thegatewaypundit.com By Margaret Flavi
Following in the footsteps of their neighbors in Evanston, the first U.S city to issue slavery reparations, activists at The University of Chicago have relaunched a campaign seeking $1 billion in reparations from the university.
A Disney+ cartoon aimed at children has been heavily criticised for proclaiming that America was "built on slavery" and for pushing the notion of 'reparations'.
If you really concentrate, you can imagine the town that this community's elders describe. There was the grocery store on the highway, and the gas station.
California's first-in-the-nation task force on reparations is at a crossroads, with members divided on which Black Americans should be eligible for compensation as atonement for a slave system that officially ended with the Civil War but reverberat
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H.R. 40 would create a commission on reparations for Black Americans modeled on the process Japanese Americans went through to receive reparations for being imprisoned in internment camps during World War II.
The U.N. human rights chief, in a landmark report launched after the killing of George Floyd in the United States, is urging countries worldwide to do more to help end discrimination, violence and systemic racism against people of African descent and
Squad member Cori Bush now calls for reparations and 'black liberation' after House votes to make Juneteenth a 'National Independence Day' federal holiday - after 14 GOP Reps said it forces Americans to pick between June 19 and July 4
While holding a virtual town hall for her constituents, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that families separated at the border while Donald Trump was in office should be paid reparations.
"Right across the country, moves are afoot to rebuild, regrow and regenerate in a better way," writes WWF-Australia CEO Dermot O'Gorman in World Wildlife Fund Australia's (WWF) 2020 annual report.
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Carl F. Horowitz
Nothing talks quite like money, and Robert L. Johnson, a wealthy black man who cofounded Black Entertainment Television (BET) four decades ago, lately has been talking about $14 trillion.
Reparations for slavery has been fiercely discussed in the United States since Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman promised 40 acres and a mule to 4 million freed slaves in 1865.
Evanston aldermen on Monday approved directing all sales tax revenue collected from recreational marijuana purchases to a fund that will establish a local reparations program.
"You have an over-militarization of police departments all across the country, racially unjust application of laws against poor black and brown people, [and] collateral consequences of these convictions that have kept black and brown people and commu
Leftist presidential hopeful, Marianne Williamson, released her proposal to pay between $200 to $500-billion in reparations to descendants of African slaves int he US to be disbursed over 20 years. She said that offering less than $100 billion is an
Several Democratic presidential hopefuls are calling for Americans to make reparations for slavery. On June 19, the House judiciary subcommittee on the constitution, civil rights and civil liberties held a hearing. Its stated purpose was "to examin
For the first time in a decade Congress will hold a hearing Wednesday on the subject of reparations for the descendants of slaves in the United States, a topic that has gained traction in the run-up to the 2020 elections.
Racial issues and reparations are in the news again, and here are the shows Ernest Hancock, Host of the Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock Radio Show, did on the issue with Wilmer J. Leon III, Ph.D. (Political Scientist; Lecturer; Scholar)