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Originally published 03/23/2018
Poland puts Berlin's WWII bill at 440 billion euros

Polish victims of World War II should be able to claim 440 billion euros ($543 billion) from Germany in World War II damages, the head of a parliamentary commission said.

Originally published 02/09/2018
Advocates still pushing for reparations to descendants of slaves

It's an uphill struggle. The first reparations bill was introduced into Congress in 1867.

Originally published 02/09/2018
Brazilians struggle over reparations from slavery era

Across Brazil, there are more than 3,000 quilombos — communities of descendants of slaves — that face continued attacks. A Supreme Court case could now invalidate their right to land.

Originally published 12/04/2017
Community Organizers Demand Reparations With Rally and Open Letter

The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) held a “Rally for Reparations” in front of Levi Hall, the University’s main administrative building, urging the University to make amends for what they view as “its founding ties to slavery,” according to Kamm Howard, national male co-chair of N’COBRA.

Originally published 11/29/2017
Canada Offers $85 Million to Victims of Its ‘Gay Purge,’ as Trudeau Apologizes

The government program, which lasted for more than 30 years and ended only in the 1990s, caused thousands to lose their jobs and sometimes face prosecution because of their sexual orientation.

Originally published 11/15/2017
The Scholars Behind the Quest for Reparations

They are propelling a reckoning with slavery’s legacy on campuses, in cities, at companies. What Hilary Beckles is doing represents the next step.

Originally published 09/08/2017
Poland ‘ready’ to demand WWII reparations from Germany

Poland’s rightwing premier Thursday said she believed her country had the right to demand World War II reparations from Germany but added that her government was still mulling its official position.

Originally published 08/18/2017
ICC orders Mali extremist to pay $3.2 million in reparations

The International Criminal court ruled Thursday that a Muslim radical found guilty of destroying World Heritage cultural sites in the Malian city of Timbuktu must pay 2.7 million euros ($3.2 million) in reparations.

Originally published 08/08/2017
Poland eyes demanding WWII reparations from Germany

The Polish parliament's research office is preparing an analysis of whether Poland can legally make the claim and will have it ready by Aug. 11, said Arkadiusz Mularczyk, a lawmaker with the ruling Law and Justice party who requested the report.

Originally published 07/26/2017
Canada’s Treaty Payments: Meager Reminder of a Painful History

Indigenous people in Canada stand in line to receive a $5 payment. Yes, they're upset about that.

Originally published 06/29/2017
New Jersey Residents March For Slavery Reparations

The N.J. rally was held in support of HR-40, which would create a commission to explore African-American slavery reparations in the U.S.

Originally published 04/28/2017
Who Gains and Who's Left Out of Georgetown's Reparations Plan

Georgetown University says it will try to atone to the descendants of slaves sold more than a century ago. One concrete step is "preferential admissions" for descendants, but it doesn't help everyone.

Originally published 04/11/2017
Jamaica offers apology and reparations to Rastafarians

The government of Jamaica took responsibility for a single incident that blamed the island’s total Rastafarian population for the death of eight individuals in a farming community 10 miles east of the second city of Montego Bay 54 years ago.

Originally published 03/20/2017
The Case for Slavery Reparations Rests on a False Assumption

Robert E. Wright

The assumption is that slavery enriched the country. It actually impoverished America.

Originally published 03/08/2017
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Harvard Should Pay Reparations For Slavery Ties

“I think it’s very important to actually say that word, to acknowledge that something was done in these institutions.”

Originally published 02/20/2017
Veteran Congressman Still Pushing for Reparations in a Divided America

"I'm not giving up," said Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) who hosted a Capitol Hill briefing recently that drew activists, legal experts, scholars, politicos and community leaders from across the country.

Originally published 02/15/2017
Federal government moves to pay Guam war reparations

The money will reward Guam residents for standing by the US during the Japanese occupation of World War 2.

Originally published 01/26/2017
Eric Foner describes how profits from the slave trade helped fund the start of Columbia University

Gillian B. White

Slavery, says Foner, has been ignored in the official histories of universities. This needs to change.

Originally published 01/13/2017
The slave trade made Scotland rich.

Stephen McLaren

Now we must pay our blood-soaked debts.

Originally published 01/11/2017
Georgetown professor says whites should keep ‘individual reparations account’

Professor Michael Eric Dyson suggested donating to the United Negro College Fund or paying “the black person who cuts your grass double what you might ordinarily pay.”

Originally published 12/22/2016
Barack Obama explains why he doesn't think reparations to black people are practical

In an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, who backs reparations, Obama said "it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation’s resources over a long period of time to make that right."

Originally published 12/09/2016
Guam war reparations bill moves to White House

“The United States forever will be grateful to the residents of Guam for their steadfast loyalty to the United States, as demonstrated by the countless acts of courage they performed despite the threat of Imperial Japanese military forces that occupied Guam during World War II."

Originally published 12/08/2016
California Owes Reparations To Victims Of Forced Race & Intellectual-Based Sterilization, Study Finds

Scores of women, men and children in California suffered under a government mandated program in the early 1900s.

Originally published 10/25/2016
Antigua and Barbuda Asks Harvard University for Slavery Reparations

Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the United States called on Harvard University “to demonstrate its remorse and its debt to unnamed slaves from Antigua and Barbuda."

Originally published 09/28/2016
US owes blacks reparations over slavery: UN experts

The United States should give African Americans reparations for slavery, UN experts said Tuesday, warning that the country had not yet confronted its legacy of "racial terrorism."

Originally published 08/04/2016
New website allows white people to offer ‘reparations’ directly to people of color

The site isn’t about atoning for slavery, says its creator, Seattle-based artist Natasha Marin.

Originally published 05/12/2016
Poll: Millennials More Open to Idea of Slavery Reparations

A vast majority of white Americans say there should not be reparations for African-American descendants of slaves, but more than half of blacks say it's a good idea and Hispanics are almost evenly split, according to a new poll.

Originally published 05/10/2016
Roma Slavery: The Case for Reparations

Margareta Matache

Reparations for historical injustices are an increasingly urgent topic of public discussion. It's time to include Roma in the conversation.

Originally published 03/29/2016
Guam WWII survivors to sue U.S. government for reparations

A group of advocates are working to finalize a nonprofit organization called Guam World War II Reparations Advocates Inc., which plans to sue the U.S. government in hopes that survivors finally receive compensation the group believes they deserve.

Originally published 02/29/2016
Case for reparation gains international force

“This is not about retribution and anger, it’s about atonement; it’s about the building of bridges across lines of moral justice,” said Sir Hilary Beckles, a distinguished historian from Barbados who made the case for reparations during a talk at Harvard Law School this week.

Originally published 02/05/2016
United Nations Calls On U.S. To Pay African Americans Reparations For Slavery

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Originally published 01/20/2016
Why Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations?

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Vermont senator’s political imagination is active against plutocracy, but why is it so limited against white supremacy?

Originally published 12/10/2015
Why Won't Obama Apologize For US Slavery?

How Reparations Debate For Black Americans Has Kept Congress From Apologizing For Slave History

Originally published 11/11/2015
White Scholar Insists Churches Should Talk About Reparations For Descendants Of Slaves

"All over the Hebrew Bible, this is what it says to do when you steal — you give it back sevenfold," says Drake University ethicist Jennifer Harvey.

Originally published 10/08/2015
Are Transatlantic Slave Trade Reparations Due?

A NYT panel is convened to answer the question posed to David Cameron last week.

Originally published 07/03/2015
America is unworthy of black forgiveness

Mark Santow

White frustration with the unwillingness of blacks to recognize that claim to racial innocence constitutes a search for cheap grace.

Originally published 12/02/2014
The Case for Reparations (to Undocumented Workers)

Greg Grandin

A few scholars have started to make the connections between slavery and the history of undocumented labor migration from Mexico and Central America.

Originally published 07/17/2014
MLK’s Case for Reparations Included Disadvantaged Whites

Reluctantly, Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for compensation included the “disadvantaged” and opened the door to whites as a way to solidify the support of white allies and liberals.

Originally published 07/17/2014
The Colorblind Bind

Richard Rothstein

Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action

Originally published 06/18/2014
Africans Have Apologized for Slavery, So Why Won’t the US?

Theodore R. Johnson III

A majority of Americans do not support reparations, or even an apology, for the centuries of brutal enslavement endured by blacks.

Originally published 06/10/2014
Native Americans need reparations even more than African Americans do

Daniel R. Wildcat

Reparations have never figured prominently into American Indian calls for justice. Why?

Originally published 06/09/2014
The case against reparations

Stu Bykofsky

"There is no rational way to diagram who gets how much from whom to satisfy an impossible debt."

Originally published 06/09/2014
Americans Can't Even Stomach An Apology For Slavery, Much Less Reparations

In one survey, Americans said by a 68 percent to 15 percent margin that the government should not make payments to black Americans who are the descendants of slaves.

Originally published 06/09/2014
Are Reparations Due to African-Americans? (NYT Roundtable)

To address the terrible human and economic costs of slavery and racial injustice in the United States, many have proposed that reparations be paid to African-Americans.

Originally published 06/02/2014
Race, Reparations, and the Need for a Universal Culture

Jim Sleeper

For better, on balance, than for worse, millions of us are generations removed from any easily recoverable traditional religious, ethnic, or racial identity.

Originally published 05/22/2014
The Case for Reparations

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

Originally published 03/11/2014
Caribbean adopts plan to seek slavery reparations

The Caribbean Community will seek a formal apology and debt cancellation from former colonizers.

Originally published 02/25/2014
Once Upon a Time Governments Paid Slave Reparations ... to Slaveowners

Greg Grandin

And why not? The early modern world knew just how much was built on the backs of slave labor. Would that we were able to acknowledge that today.

Originally published 01/15/2014
We Need to Include Reparations in the Story of Solomon Northup

Roy E. Finkenbine

The protagonist of "12 Years a Slave" was also a leader in the slavery reparations movement.

Originally published 08/09/2004
Reparations for Slavery? It's an Old Idea

Roy E. Finkenbine

Reparations for Slavery: An Old and Not-So-Strange Idea

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