reparations

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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. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/3/2021
  

  Is this Lawsuit the Last Hope for Justice for Survivors of the Tulsa Massacre?

  The lawsuit by survivors and their descendants argues that the massacre's effects constitute an "ongoing nuisance," a theory used successfully by the state to sue a pharmaceutical company for the damages of the opioid epidemic.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/25/2021
  

  When it Comes to Reparations, Is All Politics Local?

  The debate over reparations is now enfolding consideration of the actions taken by local governments, including segregation, urban renewal, environmental damage, and highway construction that have harmed communities of color. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9/8/2021
  

  What Is Owed: The Limits of Darity and Mullen's Case For Reparations

  by William P. Jones

  A historian argues that a recent and influential book calling for reparations could strengthen its case by considering the arguments made by historians about the connections of American slavery to other manifestations of racism. What's needed is to link reparations to a global overturning of racial inequality.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  8/30/2021
  

  What White Colleges Owe Black Colleges

  by Adam Harris

  "Private money alone won’t save Black colleges, but, perhaps, money from predominantly white institutions can — and it might be those colleges’ responsibility to provide that aid."

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• SOURCE: Last Week Tonight
  7/26/2021
  

  Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Ties the History of Housing Discrimination to Reparations

  John Oliver breaks down the long history of housing discrimination in the U.S., the damage it’s done, and, crucially, what we can do about it.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/24/2021
  

  Spain Pledged Citizenship to Sephardic Jews. Now They Feel Betrayed

  The Spanish government has recently begun rejecting most applications for citizenship from the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain during the Inquisition; most applicants under the initiative launched in 2015 had been accepted.