Does leaving the United States mean giving up your claim to reparations? Halisi Vinson and Ric Crawley of Our Black Utopia, who’ve lived in Lisbon for four years, tackled that exact question head-on, arguing that reparations and moving abroad aren’t remotely in conflict. Their case rests on one core distinction:…
Month: August 2026
Educational Resources
Dr. Kweku Amoasi on the Mental Health Side of Reparations
Can a check ever be enough if the harm was never acknowledged? Licensed psychologist Dr. Kweku Akyirefi Amoasi, formerly known as Dr. Ramel Smith, joined Dominique DiPrima on Freedmen Fridays to explore reparations and mental health, arguing that psychological repair has to happen alongside, not instead of, material repair. What…
Policy & Legislation
Dreisen Heath on the Real Reason Reparations Stalled
Why has federal reparations legislation stalled for nearly two decades despite having the votes to pass? Reparations strategist Dreisen Heath joined The Joy Reid Show to break down the reparations movement setbacks that have repeatedly derailed HR 40, and the organizing plan to revive it during Black August. The Apology…
Film and TV
“Possession”: Sky’s New Thriller Is Really About Reparations
What happens when a 300-year-old ghost shows up to collect on slavery’s unpaid debt? That’s the premise driving Possession, Sky’s new five-part supernatural thriller, and it might be the boldest thing on British TV this year. The series follows Claudia McKenzie, a mixed-race lawyer played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, sent to…
Educational Resources
Lisa E. Davis Blacksplains How Black Genius Was Stolen
Can you actually steal genius? Entertainment attorney Lisa E. Davis thinks so, and she’s got two centuries of receipts. She joined host Michael Harriot on Blacksplained, the weekly interview series from his Contraband Camp platform, to talk through Black intellectual property theft, the throughline connecting patent law in the 1820s…
ADOS
Yvette Carnell Breaks Down ADOS on Bad Faith Podcast
Why does reparations eligibility require a distinct lineage, not just shared racial identity? Yvette Carnell, co-founder of the ADOS movement (American Descendants of Slavery), joined host Briahna Joy Gray on the Bad Faith Podcast to make the case for ADOS reparations as a specific, tort-based claim rooted in a documented…