reparations

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• SOURCE: American Civil Liberties Union
  5/26/2020
  

  Reparations – Has the Time Finally Come?

  ACLU Senior Policy Analyst Nkechi Taifa discusses the history of the movement for African American reparations and how it has moved from the radical fringe to mainstream debate.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  5/5/2020
  

  Coronavirus Is Making The Case For Black Reparations Clearer Than Ever

  by William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen

  America has failed to seize previous chances to eliminate racial inequality and grant black Americans access to the same opportunities as whites.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/3/2020
  

  Generations of Rosewood Descendants Keep a Once-Forgotten History Alive

  This photo essay illustrates how a Florida community keeps its history, albeit painful, alive.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/3/2020
  

  After Reparations

  How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the 1923 Rosewood racial massacre.

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• SOURCE: NPR Codeswitch
  3/24/2020
  

  The Unlikely Story Behind Japanese Americans' Campaign For Reparations

  The fight for Japanese American reparations came with significant resistance—not just from the American public at large, but from the Japanese American community itself, as John Tateishi writes in his new book. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/4/20
  

  Historians Nathan Connolly and Beryl Satter Interviewed On Housing Discrimination in the Jim Crow US and The Case for Reparations

  Nathan Connolly is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and Beryl Satter is Professor of History at Rutgers University.

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• SOURCE: The Jerusalem Post
  12/14/19
  

  Due to Nazi past, Krispy Kreme owners give millions to Holocaust survivors

  "As survivors age their needs are growing ever greater," said Claims Conference executive vice-president Greg Schneider.

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• 11/17/19
  

  Cracked Foundations: The Case for Reparations

  by Julia Brown

  Compensation for historically disadvantaged minorities is nothing new.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/6/19
  

  Antigua Demands Harvard Pay Reparations for Benefiting From Slavery

  The labor of enslaved people paid for the founding of Harvard Law School, Antigua’s prime minister reminded the college’s president.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/30/19
  

  Is Georgetown’s $400,000-a-Year Plan to Aid Slave Descendants Enough?

  University officials described the decision as one step in a dialogue with the descendants, who are seeking $1 billion.

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• SOURCE: AP
  10/5/19
  

  America’s last slave ship could offer a case for reparations

  The history of Meaher and the slave ship Clotilda may offer one of the more clear-cut cases for slavery reparations, with identifiable perpetrators and victims.

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• SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel
  10/7/19
  

  Talk of reparations for slavery moves to state capitols

  Even those who support reparations in theory aren't convinced that it's a matter for state legislatures.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  9/20/19
  

  The Long History of American Slavery Reparations

  by Manisha Sinha

  From the colonial era to today, the bitter legacy of bondage and racial oppression has sparked demands for compensation, with some successes and many broken promises.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/4/19
  

  When Henrietta Wood Won Reparations in 1878

  by W. Caleb McDaniel

  She sued the man who had kidnapped her into slavery for damages and lost wages, offering lessons for today’s debate.

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• 7/28/19
  

  Racism in America: What We Can Learn from Germany’s Struggle with Its Own Evil History

  by James Thornton Harris

  If slavery is the "interstate highway system of the American past," it has yet to appear on the cultural road map of most Americans. 

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  7/9/19
  

  Why We Need More Black Women In Economics

  by Keri Leigh Merritt

  Recently a group of brilliant, driven, young Black women formed The Sadie Collective, an organization that “seeks to be an answer to the dismal representation of Black women in the quantitatively demanding fields such as public policy, economics, data analytics, and finance.”

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• SOURCE: Yahoo News
  7/9/19
  

  McConnell cites Obama in reparations debate: 'We both are the descendants of slave owners'

  “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living is responsible for, is a good idea,” McConnell said.  

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  7/8/19
  

  Sen. Mitch McConnell's great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home

  No news articles were found in which McConnell has previously spoken of his ancestors being slave owners. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/20/19
  

  Black People’s Land Was Stolen

  by Andrew W. Kahrl

  In addition to invoking the 40 acres black people never got, the reparations movement today should be talking about the approximately 11 million acres black people had but lost, in many cases through fraud, deception and outright theft, much of it taken in the past 50 years.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/25/19
  

  How right-wing talking points distort the history of slavery

  by Tyler D. Parry

  As we debate reparations, we need to get the facts right.