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The passing of this resolution was in anticipation of the 400th anniversary commemoration of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia (the first permanent English settlement in North America), which was an early colonial slave port. Apologies have also been issued by Alabama, California, [2] Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, and North Carolina. [3]
JP Morgan Chase: Apologized for its connection to slavery in 2005. [105] Georgetown University: "In 2016 [the university agreed] to give admissions preference to descendants of the 272 slaves[,] formally apologized for its role in slavery [and] [renamed] two buildings on its campus to acknowledge the lives of enslaved people". In April, 2019 ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will formally apologize for slavery and its lingering effects on Black Americans in the state under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Thursday. The legislation was part of a package of reparations bills introduced this year that seek to offer repair for decades of policies that drove racial disparities ...
In 2006, Ghana introduced Project Joseph, an initiative designed to promote tourism and investment in Ghana from descendants of the Atlantic slave trade. The initiative was intended to serve as an apology for Ghana's historical role in the slave trade, and it was named after the biblical figure Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his family. [4]
A national conversation: Mock slave auctions, racist lessons: How US history class often traumatizes, dehumanizes Black students In an email sent to the Daily American, district Superintendent ...
The African American Reparations Advisory Committee also proposed that every eligible Black adult receive a $5 million lump-sum cash payment and a guaranteed income of nearly $100,000 a year to ...
BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s city council unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday apologizing for the Massachusetts capital’s role in the trans-Atlantic […] The post Resolution apologizing ...
Victims of slavery can refer past slavery or ongoing slavery in the 21st century. Some reparations for slavery date back to the 18th century in North America , but the groundswell for such actions has gathered momentum in the 21st century, with both governments and individuals in the United Kingdom, the United States, and European colonial ...