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…
Tag: Transatlantic Slave Trade
African Union
Juneteenth in Accra: African Union Declares Decade of Reparations and Joint Juneteenth Observance at Next Steps 2026
Less than three months after 123 nations voted yes on UN Resolution A/RES/80/250 — recognizing the trafficking of enslaved Africans as among the gravest crimes against humanity — world leaders converged on Accra, Ghana for the Next Steps 2026 High-Level Consultative Conference. Hosted by President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana,…
CARICOM
Africa’s Reparations Commissions Hold First Joint Meeting as AU-CARICOM Partnership Deepens.
For the first time in history, the CARICOM Reparations Commission and the two reparations commissions established by the African Union sat down together. What came out of that meeting is a coordinated, cross-continental strategy to take the reparations demand to the United Nations — backed by a voting bloc…
Church
Pope Leo XIV Apologizes for the Church’s Role in Authorizing Slavery
On May 25, 2026 — Memorial Day — Pope Leo XIV made history. In his first papal encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”), the first American-born pope issued the most explicit apology any pope has ever delivered for the Catholic Church’s direct role in authorizing, legitimizing, and expanding the Transatlantic Slave Trade. He called…
African Union
“When I See the Street Lights in Brussels, I See Congo: Professor PLO Lumumba on Global Reparations”
The African Union declared 2025 the Year of Reparations and Justice — making this a coordinated global movement involving Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the diaspora worldwide. Professor Lumumba situates the American reparations debate inside this larger global framework: “It is only a matter of time before we break the back…