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 outlets historically profited from slavery, trafficking, and anti-Black tropes, and now owe repair to the…
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What Reparations Actually Means, According to Nikole Hannah-Jones
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 down with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to make the case that reparations is not…
Edutainment
Reparations Is a Love Story. Dr. Johns and Dr. Hunter Explain Why
Dr. David J. Johns is the CEO and Executive Director of the National Black Justice Collective, the nation’s only civil rights organization working at the intersection of Blackness and queerness. Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter is a sociologist, the first person to tweet #BlackLivesMatter, and author of Radical Reparations: Healing the…
Juneteenth
Marc Lamont Hill Office Hours: Dr. Roger Davidson on Juneteenth, the Civil War, and What Freedom Actually Means
Marc Lamont Hill hosted historian and Bowie State University Associate Professor Dr. Roger A. Davidson Jr. for an Office Hours deep dive into the history America oversimplifies every time it goes on sale at Target. The conversation ranged from the military mechanics of how emancipation actually happened, to Lincoln’s real…
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Reparations Is Not Too Hard: Aria Florant on the Case for Repair
Public support for reparations currently stands at 36% — about 9 percentage points higher than support for marriage equality when that movement coalesced. Yet most people who support reparations think they are alone. Aria Florant, co-founder and CEO of Liberation Ventures, joined Glen Galaich and Malila Becton-Consuegra on the Stupski…
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…
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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…
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…