reparations

Undergrads will vote on this tomorrow. Im a graduate student here now so unfortunately I am unable to vote on this. Basically in 1838 Georgetown was in a lot of financial trouble and resolved it by selling 272 slaves. If this passes it would create a $27.20 fee per semester for students, which...

Sen. Cory Booker to introduce reparations commission bill in the Senate - CNNPolitics

There is a Black Policy Conference going on at this week. Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza was invited to it. Her words have a lot of people rightfully heated. "Forget about that unintelligent slavery talk. It's all about gays, immigrants, and feminists." :mjpls: "Not all of us...

Like how felony disenfranchisement cost some people their right to vote? This is the same country that made Trump president after all. I'm only asking because if reparations become an actual possibility then we should be contemplating potential road blocks the powers that be might set in place...

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My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations Callie House was the leader of one of the earliest organizations to demand reparations. Her group began in the late 19th Century and carried over until it fell apart in 1918. Callie Guy was born a slave in 1861...

Tamara Lanier is suing Harvard University for ownership of daguerreotypes of slaves who she says are her ancestors. Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times NORWICH, Conn. — The two slaves, a father and daughter, were stripped to the waist and positioned for frontal and side views. Then...

Making Good on the Broken Promise of Reparations Timothy H. O’Sullivan/Library of Congress Formerly enslaved people preparing cotton for the gin on Smith’s plantation, Port Royal Island, South Carolina, 1861–1862 A bill calling for the federal government to “study and consider” how to...

I’ve been traveling around the country for the past few years studying America’s divides — urban/rural, red/blue, rich/poor. There’s been a haunting sensation the whole time that is hard to define. It is that the racial divide doesn’t feel like the other divides. There is a dimension of depth to...

Legit progressive/socialist cacs have been awfully quiet about reparations until now. Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk is one of biggest political commentators on YouTube. He co-founded Justice Democrats, which is a big reason certain elected officials (such as AOC) do not take corporate PAC...

Lets give props where it's due to arguably the first non ADOS people to advocate for reparations in the political arena :salute: not for herself, not for immigrants, she distinctly stated descendants of slaves. It's important to acknowledge so we can dispel this notion that non ADOS are against...

In what is being represented as a major victory in the fight to make Europe pay reparations to the Caribbean for the brutal transatlantic slave trade, the umbrella University of the West Indies is reporting that the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom has agreed to begin making...

:patrice:Brehs... I'm going to be objective. I have questions. I've NEVER been a proponent of financial reparations. I've ALWAYS been a proponent of reparations in the form of services, subsidies, improved institutions & environmental changes in the communities that make up a large number of...

:whoo: #ADOS is making moves. We got to stop this slander of straight black men. It's about time.

UPDATE -- #ADOS / #ADOE: H.R. 40 (Reparations Study) Presented by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee - 1/3/19 Official Reparations Study Thread About ADOS – #ADOS @Diasporan Royalty @The M.I.C. @xoxodede @HarlemHottie @Tony_Bromo @Selah @K.O.N.Y

I'm pretty we've all seen this clip. It's just over a minute long so no timestamp, but to summarize for those that can't listen, thru the homestead act: The US government gave away millions of acres to European immigrants but nothing for ADOS The US government built land-grant colleges to teach...

CLIFFS from LSA: Ebro is smarter than Envy and Charlemagne combined so he asks good questions, overall this was a good interview. Identifies as a Democrat but ran as an Independent in the past. Would not do anything to compromise the Democratic nominee against Trump. Believes that being a...

From LSA: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee introduced HR 40 on January 3, 2019. H.R.40 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act -If you are an ADOS or an ally, is your Democratic Congressman/Congresswoman on the list below? -Where...

How does she feel about ADOS getting theirs?