reparations

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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.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  June 25, 2019
  

  What South Africa Can Teach Us About Reparation

  by Ereshnee Naidu-Silverman

  Reparations can work, but only if we start telling the truth about racism and slavery.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/18/19
  

  House Democrats, With Pelosi’s Support, Will Consider a Commission on Reparations

  “It’s legislation that we think has finally reached its moment,” said Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, the chief sponsor of the measure.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/18/19
  

  The House Hearing on Slavery Reparations Is Part of a Long History. Here's What to Know on the Idea's Tireless Early Advocates

  by Arica L. Coleman

  The debate about reparations for slavery is not a new one — and the history of the idea shows just how many roadblocks there are to a meaningful conversation about the topic.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  6/19/19
  

  Congress Is Taking On Reparations. At the First Hearing, Academic Historians Were Absent.

  "The reparations conversation is much more layered and much more nuanced than people realize," Daina Ramey Berry said.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/19/19
  

  America Has Tried Reparations Before. Here Is How It Went.

  With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/19/19
  

  Why the racial wealth gap persists, more than 150 years after emancipation

  by Calvin Schermerhorn

  When one system of economic oppression collapsed, new ones were created to fill the void.

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• SOURCE: Pew Research Center
  6/17/19
  

  Most Americans say the legacy of slavery still affects black people in the U.S. today

  63% believing slavery affects the position of black people in American society today either a great deal or a fair amount.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/19/19
  

  There Is No Middle Ground on Reparations

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Americans who oppose reparations care more about responding to political expediency than about the emergency of inequality.