reparations

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/2/2021
  

  What Manhattan Beach, Calif., Says About Reparations

  "When a wealthy, liberal California town can’t bring itself to even apologize for seizing land from Black residents a century ago, it underscores what a long road lies ahead for justice and reconciliation."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  5/3/2021
  

  The Case for Reparations, In Pictures

  by Karl Kusserow

  A curator looks through the visual depictions of American history to highlight key moments in advocacy for reparations. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  4/15/2021
  

  House Panel Advances Bill to Study Slavery Reparations

  The House Judiciary Committee approved HB 40, sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, authorizing a commission to study the issue of reparations to African Americans. 

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  4/9/2021
  

  Bill That Could Lead to Slavery Reparations Proposals May be Nearing Consideration on House Floor

  The Biden Administration signaled its openness to a commission to study reparations to African Americans; a bill sponsored by US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to do that will have a vote in the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/1/2021
  

  Higher Education's Racial Reckoning Reaches Far Beyond Slavery

  by Davarian L. Baldwin

  American universities have grown in harmony with American racism throughout their history, from building on land appropriated from Native Americans to accommodating Jim Crow to promoting social science theories that justified segregation and directly encouraging gentrification through real estate purchasing. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  3/29/2021
  

  Fed's Raphael Bostic Says There is Merit to Reparations for Racism

  “There are definitely merits to it in the sense that, if people have been harmed by laws, then there should be a discussion about redress,” Bostic told CNN Business in an interview published on its website Monday.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/15/2021
  

  Catholic Order Pledges $100 Million to Atone for Slave Labor and Sales

  "The move by the leaders of the Jesuit conference of priests represents the largest effort by the Roman Catholic Church to make amends for the buying, selling and enslavement of Black people, church officials and historians said."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/1/2021
  

  Colleges Confront their Links to Slavery and Wrestle with How to Atone for Past Sins

  by Calvin Schermerhorn

  If colleges which exploited the labor of enslaved people in the past are interested in rectifying injustice, they should advocate for significant reforms that make higher education truly affordable for more African Americans. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  2/17/2021
  

  Reparations Bill Tests Biden and Harris on Racial Justice

  The President and Vice President have endorsed the establishment of a commission to study the issue of reparations for slavery and post-emancipation racism against African Americans. It is yet to be seen whether the White House can please proponents and opponents if the commission moves toward concrete findings and recommendations. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  3/3/2021
  

  Supreme Court Denies Holocaust Victims’ Property Claims Against Nazi Germany, Hungary

  The Supreme Court ruled that despite the evidence of the theft of property from victims of the Holocaust, their descendants could not seek relief against the German government by invoking international law in a U.S. Court. 

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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.