reparations

Reparations bill gets new attention amid BLM. Could other nations provide a blueprint? Tony Burroughs' great-great-great-great grandfather was freed from slavery in 1806 by a white woman from Pennsylvania. In her last will and testament, Margaret Hutton had specified that David Truman was to be...

Building off of the momentum of current events- In this thread we discuss different policies and strategies for developing a legit reparations bill

You actually have powerful people siding with Aframs on this. [placeholder for bob johnson tweet] If you're not gonna galavanize now and get multi-billion dollar corporations to support you on this, then when? Get them to support reparations. They'll support it if they have the opportunity...

THEIR BLOOD CRIES OUT The Tulsa Massacre and Destruction of Black Wall Street: The Case for Reparations and H.R. 40 Join us for the first in an urgent online forum series with leaders from around the country to address why the City of Tulsa must pay massacre victims reparations and Congress...

Are we ready? Would we have a just an equal society? What type of government would we impose? Who would be the archetypical leader? What would happen to our other historical institutions, like HBCUs in other parts of the country?

This shyt with #ADOS admittedly has some good merits: Demand a Black Agenda, achieve reparations, etc. But at this point, Idk wtf actually matters. Every single candidate has been dismissed for one reason or another EXCEPT! Ironically enough, Marianne Williamson. Marianne Williamson, the...

The Wealth Gap: Addressing Economic Inequality in the U.S.

SACRAMENTO (CBM) – Assembly member Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus, has introduced, a new bill, AB 3121. It calls for setting up a task force to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans. “Existing law,” the language of the...

OG title: The way Trump talked in this State Of The Union, y'all don't even need reparations He claims African American poverty has never been lower. This is an interesting tweet

Bloomberg pledges $70 billion to bolster black America in new plan Brittany Shepherd January 19, 2020, 12:00 PM EST TULSA, Okla. — Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will announce on Sunday his presidential campaign’s plan aimed at bolstering economic opportunity for black Americans...

Currently reading (well...listening via Audible) ..... and it's a great read so far. The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice - and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff...

Called me yesterday and told me he had to unfollow them on twitter.:francis: Backstory: This past summer, I was at a business lunch and in conversation the topic of reparations came up. I was at a table with three black businessmen here in Chicago. One is the head of Chicago’s black republican...

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Jazmine Headley sued the city after police officers yanked her toddler from her arms at a Brooklyn benefits office. HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will pay $625,000 to resolve a lawsuit filed by a mother whose toddler was yanked from her arms by police in...

Diana Fleischman, the signal boosting bytch, is a lecturer/teacher of "evolutionary psychology" at University of Portsmouth. The entire field of evolutionary psychology at this point is basically just a bunch of cacs masturbating to The Bell Curve. I looked up the bytch presenting the lecture...

Evanston will start putting money in a fund to address the north suburban city’s decline in African-American residents, among other issues. The fund will be financed by revenue from cannabis – which becomes legal for recreational use in Illinois on Jan. 1. As CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reported...

Somebody like Talib Kweli could say "I support reparations but want a plan" and the choppers come out the woodwork :bustback: but he's just a rapper :heh: That opinion isn't going anywhere. Meanwhile... Marianne Williamson, as an actual candidate for president, can propose a FRACTION of...

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Ghana Welcomes African Americans Back Home | Afro Ghana Welcomes African Americans Back Home By Micha Green - October 3, 2018 267401 By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Four centuries ago Africans were taken from the Ghanaian coast and shipped to the Americas, and...