Tag: reparations

Why a Native American Nation Is Challenging the U.S. Over a 1794 Treaty

Four or five years ago, Sidney Hill’s young son came to him with a question that Mr. Hill didn’t know how to answer. The boy had learned that day about the millions of acres of land that his people, the Onondaga, had once called home, and the way that their homeland had been taken parcel […]

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MAGA Republican Mark Robinson’s Hateful History Of Spewing Conspiracy Rhetoric

NewsOne Featured Video Conspiracy theorist and anti-abortion rights Republican Mark Robinson will face off against Democrat Josh Stein in the race for North Carolina’s governor primary election in November. Robinson has a leg up, given the Republican party’s dominance in North Carolina’s legislature, but that might not be a good thing for marginalized residents living in […]

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San Fran Apologizes To Black People For Years Of Racism. Oh, So This Is Suppose to be Reparations?

Photo: TripSavvy California has become the ninth state to issue Black residents a formal apology for years and years of racism. On Tuesday (Feb. 27), the San Francisco Board of Directors unanimously voted to acknowledge the role the city has played in sustaining decades of bigotry and discrimination. Kenya Moore: Abandoned At Birth To Real […]

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Reparations 101: Everything You Need To Know About The Fight For Reparations

NEW YORK – AUGUST 9: Lindi Bobb, 6, attends a slavery reparations protest outside New York Life Insurance Company offices August 9, 2002 in New York City. Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) Before there was Henrietta Wood, there was Belinda Royall. In 1783, Royall, who was sold into slavery as a child to Isaac Royall, […]

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Why Reparations For Slavery Are Long Overdue

In my debut novel, a family retraces their lineage in order to be eligible for the nation’s first federal reparations program for Black Americans. When I was selling my novel in 2021, it was pitched to publishers as “speculative fiction, but only slightly.” I hadn’t specifically identified that genre, but I could see how it […]

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The Root’s Guide to the Centuries Long Fight for Reparations

NEW YORK – AUGUST 9: Lindi Bobb, 6, attends a slavery reparations protest outside New York Life Insurance Company offices August 9, 2002 in New York City. Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) Before there was Henrietta Wood, there was Belinda Royall. In 1783, Royall, who was sold into slavery as a child to Isaac Royall, […]

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New York to Consider Reparations for Descendants of Enslaved People

New York will undertake an ambitious effort to address the state’s history of slavery and racism, establishing the United States’ second statewide task force to examine whether reparations can be made to confront the legacy of racial injustice. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed a bill that empowers a commission to study not only the […]

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Will These Closely Watched Bills Become Law in New York?

Will New York swear off buying paper from the Amazon rainforest to help stave off its deforestation? Should employers be able to bar workers from going to work for competitors? A harried last-minute lobbying push to answer these and other questions is accelerating in Albany, where less than two weeks remain for Gov. Kathy Hochul […]

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Atlanta Is Looking Into Reparations, But What About Cash Payments?

Los Angeles, CaliforniaSept. 22, 2022Los Angeles long-time resident, Walter Foster, age 80, holds up a sign as the Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input on reparations at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022.Photo: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times (Getty Images) Ten years ago, the idea of reparations […]

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Nearing 109, and Still Waiting for Her Day in Court

For more than a century, Lessie Benningfield Randle, one of the last known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has lived with the searing details of that spring. For decades, she has recalled the fire that ravaged her neighborhood, Greenwood, and the frantic trip with her grandmother to the safety of a fairground. Ms. […]

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In Kenya, King Charles Will ‘Walk a Tightrope’ on Britain’s Past

When King Charles III travels to Kenya this week, it will be a journey steeped in family memory for Britain’s new monarch: In 1952, his mother, Elizabeth, had just spent the night at Treetops, a remote Kenyan game-viewing lodge, when she learned of the death of her father, George VI, which thrust her onto the […]

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Reparations 101: Here’s Everything You Need To Know

NEW YORK – AUGUST 9: Lindi Bobb, 6, attends a slavery reparations protest outside New York Life Insurance Company offices August 9, 2002 in New York City. Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) Before there was Henrietta Wood, there was Belinda Royall. In 1783, Royall, who was sold into slavery as a child to Isaac Royall, […]

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National Reparations Convention Disinvites ADOS Leader From Participating, Group Says

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Mario Tama / Getty Grassroots organizations, leaders, scholars and activists in the movement for reparations gathered on Saturday in Georgia for a two-day event centered on reparative justice to atone for the U.S.’ enduring legacy of slavery. The National Reparations Convention was being held at Georgia State University this weekend “to […]

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‘Bill Is Due’: San Francisco Advocates Urge City To Take Action On Reparations Recommendations

Source: PHILIP PACHECO / Getty UPDATED: 11:00 a.m. ET, Sept. 20 Reparations supporters in San Francisco are urging supervisors to adopt the recommendations made by a city-appointed committee for how the city should repay its Black residents who are descendants of slavery.  MORE: Ghost Of Mary Ellen Pleasant: The Voodoo Queen Of San Francisco According […]

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How to Make Russia Really Pay for Invading Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Washington this week to give thanks to the United States for its generosity — while asking for $24 billion more, which is what the Biden administration is seeking from Congress in additional military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. That will bring the total amount of American aid to $135 billion, which […]

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There’s Still Resistance to Black People Receiving Reparations, Despite the Evidence That We Deserve Them

California has been the most proactive state when it comes to organizing a reasonable plan to give Black people reparations for the harm that slavery has caused them for hundreds of years. Small Town Horror: The Story of Nat Turner’s Rebellion and Brutal Aftermath Off English The California Reparations Task Force has been extremely instrumental […]

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There’s Still Resistance to Black People Receiving Reparations, Despite Evidence That We Deserve Them

California has been the most proactive state when it comes to organizing a reasonable plan to give Black people reparations for the harm that slavery has caused them for hundreds of years. Small Town Horror: The Story of Nat Turner’s Rebellion and Brutal Aftermath Off English The California Reparations Task Force has been extremely instrumental […]

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What Does America Owe the Victims of Racial Terrorism?

I met Sarah Collins Rudolph, a small woman nestled into a corded khaki sofa, last month in her darkened living room in Birmingham, Ala. The room is something of a shrine, commemorating the 1963 act of terror that killed four little girls but spared a fifth. She was that fifth little girl. She survived the […]

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Dr. Bernice King Believes Reparations Are ‘Warranted’

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – APRIL 27: Dr. Bernice A. King speaks onstage during the dedication ceremony of the Coretta Scott King Peace and Meditation Garden and Monument at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center & National Historic Site on April 27, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Paras Griffin (Getty Images) In the second part of our […]

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Dr. Bernice King Believes Reparations Are ‘Warranted’

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – APRIL 27: Dr. Bernice A. King speaks onstage during the dedication ceremony of the Coretta Scott King Peace and Meditation Garden and Monument at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center & National Historic Site on April 27, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: Paras Griffin (Getty Images) In the second part of our […]

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