“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 France Finally Repealed It.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…
Charleston Reparations Task Force
They’re Hosting Weddings on Stolen Land. Charleston Descendants Fight to Reclaim What Slavery Took.
Direct descendants of enslaved people in Charleston, South Carolina are demanding the transfer of more than 7,000 acres of former plantation land, and they are giving the owners 40 days to respond. Charlotte Drayton is a white descendant of plantation owners. She is joining the fight. “I have always felt…
Art, Culture & Memory
“If We Can’t Get Justice for Her, We Can’t Get It for Anyone”: 105 Years After Tulsa, One Survivor Is Still Waiting
As America marks the 105th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, ABC Senior National Correspondent Steve Osunsami revisits the events that destroyed Black Wall Street, and national civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons, whose new book Redeem a Nation offers a blueprint for the justice that still hasn’t come. Damario Solomon-Simmons’s…
Educational Resources
Vic Mensa and The Conscious Lee on the 13th Amendment, the Sugar Land 95, and Why Reparations Can’t Be Real While Slavery Is Still Legal.
Chicago rapper, activist, and Harvard-educated debater Vic Mensa sat down with The Conscious Lee for one of the most intellectually rigorous reparations conversations in this entire series. The central argument is one line that should stop your breath: “Reparations cannot be a serious conversation while slavery is still happening — because under the…
Edutainment
‘When I’m Elected, I’m Pushing for Reparations’: Uncle Luke’s FL-20 Campaign — and the Democrats He’s Calling Out for Never Moving the Bill
“They’re giving reparations to people who stormed the Capitol before. Not one Black or Democrat ever crafted a bill, put it to the House, got votes for it to give African-American Foundational Black Americans reparations. But yet Donald Trump did it for his people. I respect that… Where’s…