Should a former colony ask the British Crown for permission to pursue its own reparations claim? Cultural anthropologist Dr. Imani Tafari-Ama joined Dominique DiPrima on Freedmen Fridays to unpack Jamaica’s Jamaica reparations King Charles petition, and she doesn’t hold back on why she thinks the government got the strategy backward….
Month: September 2026
Policy & Legislation
Reparations Roundup: Chris Lodgson and Tamara Johnson-Shealey Report
Where do state reparations bills actually stand heading into the 2026 midterms, not the headlines, the real bill counts? Host Mark Stevenson of It’s Culture Podcast brought on Chris Lodgson of California’s CJEC and Tamara Johnson-Shealey of Georgia’s Reparations Sunday to compare notes across states, and the numbers tell a…
Podcast
Rosemari Mealy on Reparations, Durban, and Black Panther History
Why does the reparations debate provoke such fierce backlash specifically in the United States? Dr. Rosemari Mealy, a former Black Panther Party leader and author of Fidel and Malcolm X: Memories of a Meeting, joined the Karen Hunter Show to connect that resistance directly to Durban’s unfinished legacy, the UN’s…