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Reparations are broadly understood as compensation given for an abuse or injury. [1] The colloquial meaning of reparations has changed substantively over the last century. In the early 1900s, reparations were interstate exchanges (see war reparations) that were punitive mechanisms determined by treaty and paid by the surrendering side of a conflict, such as the World War I reparations paid by ...
One publication against reparations is David Horowitz, Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations for Slavery (2002). Other works that discuss problems with reparations include John Torpey 's Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics (2006), Alfred Brophy 's Reparations Pro and Con (2006), and Nahshon Perez 's Freedom from ...
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. [46]
Reparation (legal), the legal philosophy Reparations (transitional justice) , measures taken by the state to redress gross and systematic violations of human rights law or humanitarian law Reparations for slavery , proposed compensation for the Atlantic slave trade, to assist the descendants of enslaved peoples
Original release poster In a contemporary review for The New York Times , critic Frank S. Nugent wrote: "Aside from its theme, the Paramount offering has little to recommend it. There are a few brief moments when the spectator entertains some hope that the picture is getting into the farce stride, but the promise is not kept; the film sags ...
Italian reparation payments amounted to about 366 million USD and were paid to the Soviet Union, as well as Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, and Ethiopia. Finland, Romania and Bulgaria had to pay reparations worth about 300 million USD each, mostly paid in natural goods. Bulgaria had to pay reparations worth about 70 million USD.
It was the country's first statewide reparations task committee [1] and was created to study methods to resolve systemic racism against African Americans resulting from slavery's enduring legacy. [2] The task force was designed to recommend ways to educate the California public of the task force's findings and to propose remedies.
For Colored Girls is a 2010 American drama film adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1975 original choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.