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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 must pass H.R. 40 - a bill that will establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery and its legacy and make recommendations to Congress for reparations.

Join us here on:
Sunday May 31st, 2020
7PM EST / 6PM CST
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Featuring:

  • Vanessa Hall-Harper, Tulsa City Council
  • Nicole Austin-Hillary, Human Rights Watch
  • Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Author & Economist
  • Damario Solomon-Simmons, Oklahoma Civil Rights Attorney
  • Nkechi Taifa, National African American Reparations Coalition
  • Rev. Robert Turner, Tulsa’s Historic Vernon A.M.E. Church
and more, with performances as well as presentations from Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (TX).

It's time we start having honest, direct conversations about reparations. August will mark the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved people being sold into bondage in America. America used 246 years of enslaving millions of African Americans to enrich, develop, and create our nation. And for the last 154 years, we have avoided confronting this horrific history and its continuing legacy.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee showed leadership by re-introducing H.R. 40, a bill to establish a commission to study reparations proposals for African Americans. And this time, the nation is paying attention like never before. To further this conversation at this historic moment, the ACLU invited prominent Black thinkers and activists to write about why reparations are needed to right the wrongs of the past and the legacy of those wrongs that continue to 2019.

These articles and essays are merely the beginning of a necessary conversation that we as a nation have put off for far too long. Justice, however, demands it, and the ACLU couldn’t be more honored to provide a forum for these critical voices.

SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS IN SUPPORT OF H.R. 40


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I hope this goes well.

And it shows our calls, letters, emails and calling them out is working. We just have to stay on them - and on top of everything.

I am happy Mr. Stevenson will be there. I have reached out to him a few times about helping with ADOS initiatives.

They know they should have invited Dr. Darity, Yvette and Tone - but they want to play games. It will blow up in their face though. So, i'm not worried.
 
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xoxodede said:



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 must pass H.R. 40 - a bill that will establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery and its legacy and make recommendations to Congress for reparations.

Join us here on:
Sunday May 31st, 2020
7PM EST / 6PM CST
LEARN MORE

Featuring:

  • Vanessa Hall-Harper, Tulsa City Council
  • Nicole Austin-Hillary, Human Rights Watch
  • Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Author & Economist
  • Damario Solomon-Simmons, Oklahoma Civil Rights Attorney
  • Nkechi Taifa, National African American Reparations Coalition
  • Rev. Robert Turner, Tulsa’s Historic Vernon A.M.E. Church
and more, with performances as well as presentations from Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (TX).

It's time we start having honest, direct conversations about reparations. August will mark the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved people being sold into bondage in America. America used 246 years of enslaving millions of African Americans to enrich, develop, and create our nation. And for the last 154 years, we have avoided confronting this horrific history and its continuing legacy.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee showed leadership by re-introducing H.R. 40, a bill to establish a commission to study reparations proposals for African Americans. And this time, the nation is paying attention like never before. To further this conversation at this historic moment, the ACLU invited prominent Black thinkers and activists to write about why reparations are needed to right the wrongs of the past and the legacy of those wrongs that continue to 2019.

These articles and essays are merely the beginning of a necessary conversation that we as a nation have put off for far too long. Justice, however, demands it, and the ACLU couldn’t be more honored to provide a forum for these critical voices.

SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS IN SUPPORT OF H.R. 40


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I still have little confidence in Sheila Jackson Lee spearheading this thing but hopefully the Dr. Malveaux and the Tulsa people will hold it down.
 
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The man will never give us reparations , get bover it . What we need is workers rights & key people in place to penetrate the unions & the workforce
 
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