reparations

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  9/21/2020
  

  Look What Has Been Taken From Black Americans

  It's difficult to quantify the financial cost to Black Americans of racism and segregation. But the destruction of property and denial of trade by white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 was quantified by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; her findings can put the scope of a reparations program into some perspective.

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• SOURCE: CAPRadio
  9/13/2020
  

  As Newsom Weighs Reparations Bill, A Scholar Has A Word Of Caution For California

  An economist and leading scholar of the racial wealth gap urges California legislators to consider the bill as an effort at atonement, because full and proper reparations require a national and federal response from Washington. 

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• SOURCE: Frank Interviews
  9/10/2020
  

  The Debt We Still Owe

  Economist Sandy Darity summarizes the case for reparations through the persistent Black-White wealth gap. 

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• SOURCE: ColorLines
  8/26/2020
  

  The Great White Heist (The Other Reason For Reparations)

  Slavery is the usual argument for reparations. But there’s another rationale.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/24/2020
  

  U.S. Cities and States are Discussing Reparations for Black Americans. Here’s What’s Key

  One lesson from international efforts: Keep reparations distinct from general social support.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/18/2020
  

  White Anti-Mask Protesters Jeered A Black Pastor Demanding Tulsa Race Massacre Reparations

  As the group jeered, Reverend Robert Turner shouted: “You care more about a face mask than you do justice, than you do for people whose bodies are still in mass graves.”

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/28/2020
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Case for Reparations

  The creator of The New York Times 1619 project and Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones speaks with CNN's Manu Raju about the history behind the wealth gap between white Americans and Black Americans

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/29/2020
  

  Reparations Need to be Part of the Conversation about Racial Justice

  by Nichole Nelson

  Understanding how government policy held African Americans back economically — and advantaged whites — long after ending slavery, shows why the reparations discussion is once again growing.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/24/2020
  

  What Is Owed?

  While making the case for reparations, Nikole Hannah-Jones cites historians Eric Foner, Robin D.G. Kelley, Keri Leigh Merritt, Ira Katznelson, and James D. Anderson.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  6/23/2020
  

  Tackling The Racial Wealth Gap: William Darity's Plan For Reparations (Audio)

  WBUR's On Point discusses the issue of reparations to African Americans with economics and public policy professor William Darity and also discusses the legacy of the Rosewood Massacre with the grandson of the oldest survivor of the Florida episode of racist terrorism.

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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.