What is HR 40? It’s the most important piece of reparations legislation in American history — and most people have never heard of it. If you care about reparations, racial justice, or Black economic equity, …
What does it mean for a newsroom to owe a debt? Culture strategist Tia Oso joined the Lurie Daniel Favors Show on SiriusXM’s Urban View to explain media reparations, a framework arguing that mainstream media …
Dr. William A. Darity Jr., widely regarded as the nation’s foremost scholar on lineage-based reparations, sat down with Cynthia McDonald on The Roots Matter to break down what reparations eligibility actually requires, and why so …
Every Friday, KBLA Talk 1580 in Los Angeles dedicates its second hour to what host Dominique DiPrima calls “Freedmen Fridays.” This standing segment tracks the reparations movement nationwide. This week’s reparations news roundup touched on …
The Washington State Democratic Party became the first state party in the country to formally back reparations implementation, not just study, when more than 1,000 delegates voted unanimously to adopt the language during the party’s …
A University of Miami political scientist is paying Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) residents of San Francisco, St. Paul, Detroit, and Asheville $75 to sit for anonymous, 45-60 minute Zoom interviews about local reparations …
The CARICOM Reparations Forum convened on Monday, July 6, 2026, bringing together CARICOM and the Government of Saint Lucia’s National Reparations Committee for the Caribbean Conference on the Global Manifesto for Enlightenment, Socio-Economic Reparatory Justice, …
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before an abolitionist audience in Rochester, New York, and delivered one of the most searing speeches in American history. Invited to give a Fourth of July oration, Douglass …
What does reparations actually mean? And why is it so important to talk about right now? In a live episode of Undistracted recorded at Vital Voices Global Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Brittany Packnett Cunningham sits …
Gerald Horne is not interested in celebrating America 250. In a July 1, 2026 edition of Around the Horn, he argued that 1776 was driven by land theft, labor control, and slavery, not by freedom …
Was Atlantic slavery a capitalist system or a pre-capitalist one? In a recent conversation, historian David McNally argues that Atlantic slavery was not outside capitalism at all. It was a distinct capitalist system built on …
