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….
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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…