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In August 2016, the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition that is tied to the Black Lives Matter movement, released a policy platform based around reparations. [21] The platform listed six demands, comprising 40 policy recommendations, and "seeks reparations for lasting harms caused to African-Americans of slavery and investment in education ...
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1350010604. Brophy, Alfred L. Reparations: Pro & Con. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Brooks, Roy L. Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Conyers introduced the act in 1989, and successively introduced it in each Congress until his retirement almost 30 years later. Juneteenth 2019 saw the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties conduct a hearing on this issue, in what was seen as a historic sitting, given the previous reparations discussion in that venue took place in 2007, "one year ...
As calls for reparations for Black Americans swell in the U.S., organizations like the NAACP are calling on the federal government to cancel student loan debt as a tier of reparations. Here's why.
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 ...
An official who spent 4 decades at the Fed says $2 trillion in annual reparations is the least we can do to fix systemic racism: ‘I just don’t want to wait for another generation ...
In 1974, Mary T. Harper, Ph.D. (1935-2020), [4] an assistant professor of English at the UNC-Charlotte, proposed an Afro-American cultural center for the city of Charlotte. [4] Working with her mentor, Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, Ph.D., director of UNC-Charlotte's Black Studies Center, Harper envisioned a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Afro-American Cultural ...
The association was announced on June 18, 2021, in commemoration of the first federally recognized Juneteenth holiday. [1] [2] Mayors from such large municipalities as Los Angeles, Denver, Sacramento, and Kansas City are part of the coalition, [3] as well as the mayor of the small town of Tullahassee, Oklahoma, [4] with a population of 83. [5]