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…
Tag: REPARATIONS
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…
Educational Resources
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before an abolitionist audience in Rochester, New York, and delivered one of the most searing speeches in American history. Invited to give a Fourth of July oration, Douglass instead used the occasion to confront his audience with an uncomfortable truth: the freedom being…
Podcast
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…
CARICOM
Sir Lenny Henry’s Reparations Push Is Forcing Britain to Face Its Slave Trade Legacy
Sir Lenny Henry is putting Britain’s slavery reparations debate back on the front page. In a 2025 House of Parliament summit, Henry, Marcus Ryder, MPs, and community leaders argued that reparations are not fringe politics, they are Britain’s unfinished business. Lenny Henry’s Reparations Push Is Getting Louder The conversation centers…
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…
Educational Resources
Haiti Paid France for Its Own Freedom. That’s Why Haiti Is Poor.
Michael Imhotep is a historian, researcher, and founder of the African History Network. He teaches a 10-week course connecting the Haitian Revolution to the U.S. Civil War, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Black Power Movement. His breakdown of the New York Times 2022 investigative series cuts straight to why Haiti…
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…
Juneteenth
Juneteenth Spurs New Jersey Reparations Push as Advocates Press for Repair
As Juneteenth celebrations unfold, New Jersey advocates including Jean-Pierre Brutus are pushing reparations back into the spotlight. NJ Spotlight News reports on the statewide and national fight for repair. Five years after Juneteenth became a federal holiday, New Jersey advocates are using the anniversary to press for reparations at the…