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Many groups under the Black Lives Matter organization have laid out a list of demands, some of which include: reparations, for what they say are past and continuing harms to African Americans, an end to the death penalty, legislation to acknowledge the effects of slavery, a move to defund the police, seizing homes owned by white families and ...
The stated mission of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America is: ...to win full Reparations for Black African Descendants residing in the United States and its territories for the genocidal war against Africans that created the TransAtlantic Slave "Trade" Chattel Slavery, Jim Crow and Chattel Slavery’s continuing vestiges (the Maafa).
The topic of reparations gained renewed attention in 2020 [45] as the Black Lives Matter movement named reparations as one of their policy goals in the United States. In 2020, rapper T.I. supported reparations that would give every African American US$1 million and asserted that slavery caused mass incarcerations, poverty, and other ills.
In 2021, 77% of Black Americans said they supported issuing reparations tied to slavery, while only 18% of white Americans agreed, according to the Pew Research Center.
While Evanston, Illinois, became the first city in the country in 2021 to actually pay reparations to its eligible Black residents, and New York recently enacted a commission to study the effects ...
A 2022 Pew Research Center survey found 68% of U.S. respondents opposed reparations compared with 30% in favor. Nearly 80% of Black people surveyed supported reparations. More than 90% of ...
The act aims to create a commission to examine the merits of introducing reparations to African-Americans for US slavery. The most recent sponsor of the act was Rep. Ayanna Pressley, on January 3, 2025, to the 119th Congress. [1] Before that Sheila Jackson Lee proposed the bill in January 2023 before her death in 2024. [2]
Many Detroit residents still mourn the loss of vibrant Black business and entertainment districts that were leveled to make room for Interstate 375, above, and other infrastructure projects of the ...