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Why Reparations Are Needed to Close the Racial Wealth Gap nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
TWe are grateful for the recent resolution approved by the Winston-Salem City Council apologizing to community members of African descent for our history of racial inequity. We hope it continues an essential journey of transformational policy and awareness in our community. It is right to call upon the U.S. Congress and our N.C. General Assembly to study and make recommendations for reparations to be paid to descendants of slavery. We support the passage of H.R. 40 currently in the U.S. House of Representatives and agree a similar action should take place in our state. We believe our city should also take ownership with critical policy actions toward repair of the painful harm done to those of African descent. The resolution requires a twice per year report from the city manager on progress related to this apology. We call for a public dialogue about the meaning of such progress. ....
Former Mellon Foundation Leader Discusses Reparations and the George Floyd Murder philanthropy.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from philanthropy.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
California Reparations Committee Confronts Harms Of Slavery, Debates Direct Payments laist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from laist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In summary As California’s reparations committee embarks on a two-year process to study the harms of slavery and systemic racism, task force members will confront how a single state, which never formally sanctioned slavery, can make amends. During the first meeting, members openly grappled with whether reparations should mean direct payments or long-term investments, such as education and housing, to boost African American households. For more than three decades, Black members of Congress have introduced legislation to study the lasting harms of slavery on African Americans, and propose remedies. Year after year, the federal proposal languished. Now, California is going it alone. ....