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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/10/2023
Cash Reparations to Japanese Internees Helped Rebuild Autonomy and Dignity
by Morgan Ome
Many recent proposals for African American reparations prescribe particular uses for compensation, such as securing housing. But the lesson of the $20,000 payments made to Japanese-American internees and their descendants is that restoring dignity and autonomy means letting recipients decide how to spend any payment for themselves.
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SOURCE: NPR
6/13/2023
Rachel Swarns Traces the Ties of Slavery and the American Catholic Church
Following up on a blockbuster 2016 Times article, Swarns's book examines the histories of families with ancestors who were sold by Maryland Jesuits to shore up the order's finances (including the fledgling Georgetown University).
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SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
5/12/2023
Big Win for Victims of Restrictive Covenants
by James Gregory
Restrictive covenants and other housing policies created a housing market defined by racial segregation and locked generations of Black Americans out of wealth-building. Now courts frown on race-aware remedies for past discrimination. Has the state of Washington figured out a way around that to deliver reparations?
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/16/2023
Black San Franciscans Have Been Leaving—Could Reparations Bring them Back?
A city commission has issued non-binding advisory recommendations for extensive cash reparations to Black residents and their families who were pushed out of now-valuable property through urban renewal. It's not likely that the local government will implement any of them, so activists are trying to help make housing more affordable.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/10/2023
Washington State Law to Offer Low-Interest Home Loans to Redress Decades of Discriminatory Housing
by James Gregory
Specific practices by private lenders and public authorities have created and perpetuated disparities in homeownership and wealth through real estate. Guided by researchers, Washington State is attempting to compensate for that harm.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/6/2023
State Advisory Panel on Reparations Calls for Payments to Black Californians; Legislative Response Unclear
The task force's report has placed a cash value on harms suffered by Black Californians from state policies that excluded them from the Golden State's prosperity, ranging from redlining to the war on drugs and mass imprisonment.
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SOURCE: NPR
1/7/2023
How Barbados's Reparations Movement Found the International Spotlight
The availability of clear records tying British families – like that of actor Benedict Cumberbatch – to Caribbean slavery has made the movement for reparations in Barbados and other island nations very visible, if not yet successful.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
9/20/2022
Evanston, Illinois Passed a Reparations Program. Can its Liberal Present Confront the Segregated Past?
by Kari Lydersen
The Chicago suburb has focused on progams to rectify the harms caused by discrete city actions, specifically generations of housing discrimination that limited Black wealth gains from real estate. Can it make a difference? Will local taxpayers support it?
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SOURCE: Associated Press
9/1/2022
Poland Seeking $1.3 Trillion in World War II Reparations from Germany
The Polish government referenced a recently completed report documenting the costs to Poland of war, and argued that reconciliation between the nations could best be served by a payment.
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SOURCE: Hard Histories (Johns Hopkins University)
6/14/2022
What Reparations Can Look Like
by Martha S. Jones
Are directed cash grant programs undertaken by churches, cities, or other civic organizations a viable way to deliver reparations as part of those institutions' efforts to acknowlege the harm of their past actions?
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SOURCE: The Varsity
6/3/2022
Cambridge Slavery Researcher Quits Citing Pressure to Censor Report
A postdoctoral researcher investigating the involvement of two of Cambridge's colleges in the slave trade reported pressure from senior fellows who objected to focus on the past faults of the institution.
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SOURCE: NBC News
6/1/2022
Reparations Report Details 150 Years of State-Sanctioned Harm to Black Californians
"It finds that the damage to Black communities is extensive and that a variety of intentionally crafted policy, judicial decisions and racism by private actors has created a widespread exclusion of Black people that has not been sufficiently addressed at any level of government."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/26/2022
Harvard President and Dean: Slavery Shaped the University
by Lawrence S. Bacow and Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Harvard's financial, infrastructural and intellectual legacies are unavoidably entangled with slavery. A new report is meant to signal the university's efforts at reckoning and reconciliation.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/1/2022
A Historic All-Black Oklahoma Town Wants Reparations to Rebuild as a "Safe Haven"
“Oklahoma’s Black communities are overdue,” said Mayor Currin, 38, a fourth-generation Tullahassee resident. “Tullahassee has always been in a fight, always fighting to exist and always fighting to thrive."
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SOURCE: Public Books
3/29/2022
Can the Past be Repaired?
by Sophie Gonick
Menachem Kaiser's memoir of attempts to reclaim a Polish building lost by his Jewish grandfather during World War II raises questions about the right to property as parts of historical memory, and the problematic aspects of seeking reparation through restoration of ownership.
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SOURCE: WBUR
2/2/2022
Two Boston Council Members Propose Reparations Study Commission
The group would examine the history of racism in Boston and its effects on the city’s Black residents.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
1/10/2022
The Reparations Fight Must Include Costs of Climate Change
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
The movement for reparations should be informed by the broader politics of anticolonial liberation struggles which sought not just to transfer resources but to raise new questions about the basic organiation of societies on a global scale.
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SOURCE: Brookings
12/8/2021
Brookings: What are White Americans' Attitudes Toward Reparations?
"Recent polling data documents Americans’ general opposition to reparations in the form of financial payments to Black Americans as compensation for slavery."
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/6/2021
Germany to Dedicate Additional $767M for Holocaust Survivors
Russian Jews who were subjected to the brutal siege of Leningrad, and subjected to Nazi propaganda that encouraged other Russians to blame them for the city's suffering, are among those offered new pensions.
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SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
10/10/2021
Latvia Grants Holocaust Restitution, Denies Responsibility
Many Latvians today insist that their nation was a victim of Nazi aggression, rather than complicitous in antisemitic atrocities.