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…
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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…
Edutainment
A Republican Just Called It Reparations. On Live TV. Willie D Has the Receipts.
Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pennsylvania) used the word “reparations” on Newsmax to describe Trump’s $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund — a taxpayer-backed settlement fund for people who claim the Biden administration wronged them. Willie D’s point is simple: “Now we know y’all have a fundamental understanding of what reparations is. Y’all just don’t want to pay…
Podcast
So White People Can Get Reparations? Angela Rye Has Questions.
Political commentator and attorney Angela Rye went live on May 22, 2026 to ask the question that every Black American is thinking: So white people can get reparations? The Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is being called out for what looks like reparations for insurrectionists, funded by the same taxpayers…