https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0bOuwinV38
Contribute to the upcoming Rally 4 Reparations at https://gofund.me/153233d9The new hip hop documentary film Microphone Check will be in theaters May 23, 202

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"We need these programs you're talking about to be held accountable," a man who had traveled from Hayward, about 90 miles south of Sacramento, said to the task force.

https://www.businessinsider.com/black-americans-are-calling-for-reparations-heres-what-that-means-2020-7?op=1
The negative financial impact of slavery, say Rashawn Ray and Andre M. Perry, authors of the Brookings Institute policy paper "Why we need reparations for Black Americans," grows exponentially

https://judgeawcenter.umd.edu/news/overdue-debt-%E2%80%94-why-it%E2%80%99s-finally-time-pay-reparations-black-americans
The first enslaved Africans were brought to the United States of America over 400 years ago. In the years that succeeded, a nation was created, divided, reunited, and reconstructed, all while becoming one of the most powerful countries on the planet. Despite all of its feats, however, America has failed to do one thing: compensate those individuals who literally grew the nation, and whose

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/11/28/black-and-white-americans-are-far-apart-in-their-views-of-reparations-for-slavery/
How we did this. Views of reparations for slavery vary widely by race and ethnicity, especially between Black and White Americans. Around three-quarters of Black adults (77%) say the descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. should be repaid in some way, while 18% of White Americans say the same. There are also notable differences by partisan

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-we-need-reparations-for-black-americans/
Additionally, reparations should come in the form of wealth-building opportunities that address racial disparities in education, housing, and business ownership. In 1860, over $3 billion was the

https://naacp.org/resources/reparations
WHEREAS, reparations are a financial recompense for African-Americans whose ancestors were slaves and lived through the Jim Crow era. The enslavement and overall persecution of Black people in the United States has enriched the United States and created disparities in income, wealth and education between blacks and whites.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/26/981722579/reparations-can-and-should-take-many-forms-says-human-rights-researcher
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: This week the city of Evanston, Ill., authorized spending on reparations to its Black residents in the form of housing grants. The news was among the first of its kind but

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/us/black-americans-reparations.html
The $20,000 payments to about 80,000 eligible Japanese Americans did not come close to compensating them for the property they had lost, and other examples of reparations have usually fallen short.

https://theconversation.com/why-reparations-to-african-americans-are-necessary-how-to-start-now-119581
Reparations are a way of making the country whole, by partially remedying the inherited inequalities that still plague African-Americans. They are a way of saying that African-Americans are, at

https://www.aclu.org/issues/create-more-perfect-union-we-people-need-reparations-heal-our-wounded-souls
The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) Preliminary 10-Point Plan for reparatory justice states: "With the 'abolition' of slavery the 'emancipated' sons and daughters of Africa suffered systematic, often violent repression, oppression, exploitation and deprivation under southern apartheid and de facto segregation in every region of this nation."

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/28/1010870697/the-u-n-rights-chief-says-reparations-are-needed-for-people-facing-racism
Martial Trezzini/AP. GENEVA — The U.N. human rights chief, in a landmark report launched after the killing of George Floyd in the United States, is urging countries worldwide to do more to help

https://theconversation.com/what-the-us-can-learn-from-africa-about-slavery-reparations-157218
As the U.S. debates reparations for descendants of U.S. slavery, looking to Africa might help clear a path forward, according to my research on African history and the African diaspora. South

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/13/us/reparations-state-local-commission-reaj/index.html
After three years in the making, Evanston gave Weathers and 15 other Black residents $25,000 each in May to put toward a down payment on a home, mortgages or home repairs. Like Weathers

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/reparations-african-americans-un
The United States owes African-Americans reparations for slavery, a recent report by a United Nations-affiliated group said.. The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent said that

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47643630
A monetary payout to black Americans usually comes to mind when discussing reparations in the US. And critics are quick to point out such a payment would cost the US trillions. But just throwing

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/house-democrat-proposes-14-trillion-reparations-plan-for-black-americans/ar-BB1h6fKl
Happening Now: Rep Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y and 8 other members of Congress are pushing for a reparations bill which will cost $14 trillion. When asked how they'll pay for this Bowman said "we

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/reparations-debate-slavery-black-americans.html
By Celeste Headlee. July 11, 202310:30 AM. Coleman Hughes testifies during a hearing on slavery reparations on June 19, 2019, in Washington. Zach Gibson/Getty Images. After the Supreme Court

https://today.tamu.edu/2019/04/24/the-case-for-african-american-reparations-explained/
Slavery lasted for nearly 250 years, about 60% of U.S. history, including Colonial times. Counting the nearly century-long Jim Crow segregation of African Americans, officially sanctioned racial oppression encompassed more than 80% of U.S. history to date. An 18th-century newspaper ad announcing the sale of '250 fine healthy negroes.'.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/25/us/reparations-african-americans-usa.html
In the small town of Carrboro outside of Raleigh, N.C., Mayor Lydia Lavelle said the city is planning to take steps toward reparations for its Black residents, who make up roughly 10 percent of

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882773218/a-call-for-reparations-how-america-might-narrow-the-racial-wealth-gap
Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says 250 years of slavery and 100 years of legalized segregation robbed Black Americans of the ability to accumulate wealth; cash payments would help repair the damage.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/san-francisco-plans-to-apologize-to-black-residents-for-racist-laws-reparations-advocates-want-more
The African American Reparations Advisory Committee also proposed that every eligible Black adult receive a $5 million lump-sum cash payment and a guaranteed income of nearly $100,000 a year to

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47643630
A monetary payout to black Americans usually comes to mind when discussing reparations in the US. And critics are quick to point out such a payment would cost the US trillions. But just throwing