The 18th-century thinkers behind laissez-faire economics saw slavery as a great example of global free trade
by Blake Smith
For nearly four centuries, the Atlantic slave trade brought millions of people into bondage. Scholars estimate that around 1.5 million people perished in the brutal middle passage across the Atlantic. The slave trade linked Africa, Europe […]
The Caribbean case for reparative justice
By David A. Granger
Address by His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to the International Youth Reparations Relay and Rally, Independence Park, Georgetown.
The trans-Atlantic trade in captive Africans
The trans-Atlantic trade in captive Africans “was the largest forced transportation of human beings from […]
“We now need to say to the British Government development is a shared responsibility…you have a role to play in this process, come back to the table and repair the damage you have done”. Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), was speaking in his role as chairman […]
By REVD. Jesse Jackson
I thank President Hollande, Minister Pau Langevin, for their gracious invitation to this momentous occasion. I thank the Ministers, the president of the Senate and the President of the National Assembly and all the dignitaries present. I also thank Mrs. Cottias, President of the Committee for the Remembrance of […]
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Danny Glover delivering a message on the Decade for People of African Descent.
Danny Glover speaks to the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).
by Brian Jones
A 1930 unemployment rally at local Communist Party headquarters in Washington, DC. Library of Congress
In a series of recent articles in the Atlantic, columnist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates criticized US presidential candidate and self-described socialist Bernie Sanders for not supporting reparations. Cedric Johnson responded with an open letter that challenged Coates’s […]
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