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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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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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Thousands Of Children Will No Longer Get Summer Food Program

Kids enjoying lunch togetherPhoto: Maskot (Getty Images) Within days of Christmas, families in Iowa and Nebraska received some troubling news. Republican Governors in those states have announced that they’re opting out of a summer Federal food assistance program. The program provides thousands of low-income families with an additional $40 per month in food assistance to […]

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Let’s Admit It: “Bidenomics” Has Failed

In 1984, the nation had been grappling with inflation rates higher than 3 percent annually since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House. For 15 years, Americans had grown inured to picking up a can of Campbell’s soup and discovering stickers with three different prices on it, each one higher than the last. That was […]

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Why “Bidenomics” Failed

In 1984, the nation had been grappling with inflation rates higher than 3 percent annually since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House. For 15 years, Americans had grown inured to picking up a can of Campbell’s soup and discovering stickers with three different prices on it, each one higher than the last. That was […]

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Here Are More Boogie Men (And Women) Of Black History

UNITED STATES – SEPTEMBER 16: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event with veterans at the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Ave., NW, where he stated he believes President Obama was born in the United States, September 16, 2016. Medal of Honor recipient Mike Thornton, appears at right. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call […]

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Here Are The Boogie Men (And Women) Of Black History

UNITED STATES – SEPTEMBER 16: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event with veterans at the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Ave., NW, where he stated he believes President Obama was born in the United States, September 16, 2016. Medal of Honor recipient Mike Thornton, appears at right. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call […]

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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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