During Equity Week on Capitol Hill, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) hosted a press conference calling on Congress to advance reparative justice legislation for communities of color who bear the disproportionate burden of this nation’s institutional social, racial, and economic inequities. Speakers included Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12), Dreisen Heath (reparations organizer),…
ADOS
They’re Pulling Out the Ingredients. Every Cheat Code Black America Survived On Is Being Shut Down.
Yvette Carnell, political commentator, co-founder of the ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery) movement, and President of the ADOS Advocacy Foundation, delivered this commentary on her Wednesday Breaking Brown livestream. No guest. No panel. Just one person walking through the economics of Black survival in America and what it means that…
Charleston Reparations Task Force
40 Days. 7,000 Acres. The Charleston Reparations Task Force Is Done Waiting on Words.
Reported by Maya Brown, Live 5 News, Charleston, SC. The Charleston Reparations Task Force, in coalition with Gullah Geechee community members and descendants of enslaved Africans, confronted representatives of three major Lowcountry plantations and issued a formal demand for land transfer and reparative justice. 1. This is reparations as…
Podcast
Mother Randall Is 111 Years Old and Still Waiting. Who Counts as Having Been Harmed by the State?
NPR’s Code Switch, hosted by B.A. Parker and Gene Demby, investigates the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” the federal judgment fund it drew from, and the question at the center of it all: who does the United States government recognize as having been harmed? Featuring Don Tamaki, attorney…
New York State Commission
Charles Barron on Why Every Reparations Door Has Been Closed From the Inside.
“Elected Revolutionary” Charles Barron is a member of the original Black Panther Party, a longtime reparationist, and a former NYC City Councilman and New York State Assembly Member. On this #FreedmenFridays segment, Barron explains the multiple stall-outs, challenges, and forward progress of New York’s state and municipal reparations efforts. The…
CARICOM
Restitution Now: The Caribbean Is Building Its Case and It Starts with Haiti
Hosted by the University of the Bahamas in partnership with Equality Bahamas and the National Reparations Committee, this symposium on reparatory justice for Haiti brings together scholars, activists, journalists, and members of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. The speakers include Gel Curry (Vice Chair, UN…
African Union
Three Scholars. One Question. Has the World Finally Turned a Corner on Reparations?
Hosted by Future Africa and the University of Pretoria, this webinar titled “A False Start? Actions for Reparations and the UN Resolution on Slavery” brings together three scholars: Professor Helen Colum (University of Cape Town), Dr. Shangu (University of Jerusalem), and Professor Abdi Summit (University of Minnesota and member of…
ADOS
The Wealth Gap Isn’t a Gap. It’s a Canyon. And Attorney Antonio Moore Has the Charts.
The bottom 50% of American households own 1% of total household wealth. “90% of Black America is in the bottom half of America. That half owns 1% of the wealth.” Read that again. Slowly. Nine out of ten Black American households are sitting in the half of this country that…
Global Perspectives
France Abolished Slavery in 1848. France Finally Repealed It. Macron Said the R-Word. He Didn’t Write the Check.
Historian and professor Olivette Otele of SOAS London joins a news program to discuss the French Parliament’s unanimous repeal of the Code Noir, 341 years after it was signed by Louis XIV and 178 years after France abolished slavery. The reparations debate is now officially open. In 1685, King…
Podcast
Briahna Joy Gray and Saul Williams on Bernie, Reparations, and the Left’s Broken Promise to Black America
Bernie Sanders was asked one question in a presidential debate: Do you believe in reparations? His answer was one word: No. The man talking about Medicare for All, student debt, and breaking up the billionaire class could not find a way to say yes to direct compensation for…