US cities start racism reparations as national efforts languish
Local initiatives give people the experience of reparative justice
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Local initiatives give people the experience of reparative justice
The National Black Cultural Information Trust, Inc. Leads Strategy Session for Reparations Activists during the National Symposium.
/PRNewswire/ -- Over 200 reparations activists from 26 states, working on local and national reparations initiatives, gathered in Evanston, Illinois, for the...
Since its introduction in 1989, support has grown for HR 40, the federal legislation to establish a commission to study slavery and discrimination in the United States from 1619 to the present and make recommendations for how to repair harm done to descendants of enslaved Africans. HR 40 has nearly 200 cosponsors… But it has not made progress in congress since Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) brought it forward. As this legislation stands still, organizers, scholars and local civil servants are developing programs and plans to provide various forms of reparations for African descend...
From California to North Carolina, people are making reparations a reality.