reparations

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/26/2022
  

  Harvard President and Dean: Slavery Shaped the University

  by Lawrence S. Bacow and Tomiko Brown-Nagin

  Harvard's financial, infrastructural and intellectual legacies are unavoidably entangled with slavery. A new report is meant to signal the university's efforts at reckoning and reconciliation. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/1/2022
  

  A Historic All-Black Oklahoma Town Wants Reparations to Rebuild as a "Safe Haven"

  “Oklahoma’s Black communities are overdue,” said Mayor Currin, 38, a fourth-generation Tullahassee resident. “Tullahassee has always been in a fight, always fighting to exist and always fighting to thrive."

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  3/29/2022
  

  Can the Past be Repaired?

  by Sophie Gonick

  Menachem Kaiser's memoir of attempts to reclaim a Polish building lost by his Jewish grandfather during World War II raises questions about the right to property as parts of historical memory, and the problematic aspects of seeking reparation through restoration of ownership.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  2/2/2022
  

  Two Boston Council Members Propose Reparations Study Commission

  The group would examine the history of racism in Boston and its effects on the city’s Black residents.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/10/2022
  

  The Reparations Fight Must Include Costs of Climate Change

  by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

  The movement for reparations should be informed by the broader politics of anticolonial liberation struggles which sought not just to transfer resources but to raise new questions about the basic organiation of societies on a global scale.

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• SOURCE: Brookings
  12/8/2021
  

  Brookings: What are White Americans' Attitudes Toward Reparations?

  "Recent polling data documents Americans’ general opposition to reparations in the form of financial payments to Black Americans as compensation for slavery."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/6/2021
  

  Germany to Dedicate Additional $767M for Holocaust Survivors

  Russian Jews who were subjected to the brutal siege of Leningrad, and subjected to Nazi propaganda that encouraged other Russians to blame them for the city's suffering, are among those offered new pensions. 

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• SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  10/10/2021
  

  Latvia Grants Holocaust Restitution, Denies Responsibility

  Many Latvians today insist that their nation was a victim of Nazi aggression, rather than complicitous in antisemitic atrocities. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/3/2021
  

  Is this Lawsuit the Last Hope for Justice for Survivors of the Tulsa Massacre?

  The lawsuit by survivors and their descendants argues that the massacre's effects constitute an "ongoing nuisance," a theory used successfully by the state to sue a pharmaceutical company for the damages of the opioid epidemic.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/25/2021
  

  When it Comes to Reparations, Is All Politics Local?

  The debate over reparations is now enfolding consideration of the actions taken by local governments, including segregation, urban renewal, environmental damage, and highway construction that have harmed communities of color. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9/8/2021
  

  What Is Owed: The Limits of Darity and Mullen's Case For Reparations

  by William P. Jones

  A historian argues that a recent and influential book calling for reparations could strengthen its case by considering the arguments made by historians about the connections of American slavery to other manifestations of racism. What's needed is to link reparations to a global overturning of racial inequality.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  8/30/2021
  

  What White Colleges Owe Black Colleges

  by Adam Harris

  "Private money alone won’t save Black colleges, but, perhaps, money from predominantly white institutions can — and it might be those colleges’ responsibility to provide that aid."

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• SOURCE: Last Week Tonight
  7/26/2021
  

  Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Ties the History of Housing Discrimination to Reparations

  John Oliver breaks down the long history of housing discrimination in the U.S., the damage it’s done, and, crucially, what we can do about it.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/24/2021
  

  Spain Pledged Citizenship to Sephardic Jews. Now They Feel Betrayed

  The Spanish government has recently begun rejecting most applications for citizenship from the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain during the Inquisition; most applicants under the initiative launched in 2015 had been accepted. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/4/2021
  

  Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends?

  "For almost three years now, with the fervor of the newly converted, Ms. Marshall has been on a quest that from the outside may seem quixotic and even naïve. She is diving into her family’s past and trying to chip away at racism in the Deep South, where every white family with roots here benefited from slavery and almost every Black family had enslaved ancestors."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/28/2021
  

  The U.N. Rights Chief Says Reparations Are Needed For People Facing Racism

  The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on nations to "stop denying and start dismantling" racism through means including, but not limited to, monetary compensation. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Tribune
  6/14/2021
  

  Black Women have Always Led the Fight for Reparations. 'They're Not Getting Their Due,' Historians Say

  Ashley Farmer and Ana Lucia Araujo argue that the historical debate about reparations for slavery and official anti-Black racism often ignores the leadership of Black women in arguing for reparations and proposing specific forms of restitution. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/15/2021
  

  Virginia Theological Seminary Pays Reparations to Descendants of Enslaved and Jim Crow Laborers

  VTS, founded in 1823, said in a 2019 statement that it “recognizes that enslaved persons worked on the campus and that even after slavery ended, VTS participated in segregation. VTS recognizes that we must start to repair the material consequences of our sin in the past.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/7/2021
  

  Plantations Aren’t Paying Reparations, But Have Started Programs To Give Back To Descendants

  Joy Banner, descended from people enslaved at the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, is pursuing reparations in the form of input into the use of land owned by the Whitney, saying “there are as many different forms of reparations as you can think of, because healing looks different in every community.”

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/27/2021
  

  California’s Novel Attempt at Land Reparations

  Los Angeles County will return title to land that once was "Bruce's Beach," one of the only Southern California oceanfront resorts welcoming Black visitors, to the descendants of the owners from whom the property was taken by eminent domain in 1927.