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He builds off of previous scholarly works, proposed policy, and community-based ideas to suggest a comprehensive national discussion regarding reparations. "The Case for Reparations" repeatedly underlines the concept of reparations as a collective reframing of the history of the United States to a perspective more in line with the truth.
The debate over whether or not the United States should pay reparations for slavery to African-American citizens continues even after last week's House Judiciary Committee hearing on the matter.
The Government announced it would accept all the recommendations of a review into historical mistreatment of LGBT veterans. Mistreated LGBT veterans must receive fair reparations, ministers told ...
The setback last month followed turmoil at Harvard over that elite university's plans to make amends for historic ties to slavery and a lawsuit challenging an Illinois city's reparations payments.
Reparations have been a recurring idea in the politics of the United States, most recently in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. [5] The call for reparations intensified in 2020, amidst the protests against police brutality and the COVID-19 pandemic, which both kill Black Americans disproportionately. [ 6 ]
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]
After a blockbuster 1,000 page report, California's reparations advocates will have to convert recommendations from its statewide task force into policies — and convincing voters to pay for it.
Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act; Long title: To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent ...