
For starters, former Confederate states legally extended the multibillion-dollar slavery franchise—with the US government’s complicity.
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Written by ED GASKIN Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed
For starters, former Confederate states legally extended the multibillion-dollar slavery franchise—with the US government’s complicity.
Written by IRENE MONROE Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
The struggle for Black Tulsan survivors and their descendants to receive reparations has been a century-old controversy, one that is a pox on this country’s unwillingness to redress the human rights violation and generational loss of accumulated wealth.
Written by IRENE MONROE Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed
Uncle Will’s grandmother, my spouse’s great-grandmother, was born into slavery and died as a free woman at the age of 108. Sometime during Reconstruction (1863-1877), the great-grandmother accrued a small plot of farmland that now awaits its fate, as her brood scrape together enough money to keep it.
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS
How about reparations for workers and proprietors who were swindled and cheated?