For starters, former Confederate states legally extended the multibillion-dollar slavery franchise—with the US government’s complicity.
OPINION: WHY BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES SHOULD RECEIVE REPARATIONS
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OPINION: TULSA RACE MASSACRE REPARATIONS WOULD BEGIN THE HEALING
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.
WHY REPARATIONS: AMERICA NEEDS TO PAY UP AND PAY FORWARD
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.
THE CASE FOR REPARATIONS FOR BOSTON CAB DRIVERS
How about reparations for workers and proprietors who were swindled and cheated?
