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December 14, 2016 one response
November 29, 2016 no responses
Angela Rye: ‘There’s Nothing Un-American About Reparations’
CNN political commentator Angela Rye called for reparations during a heated discussion with Donald Trump supporter Carl Higbie on air Tuesday afternoon.
Rye and Higbie were discussing whether the two major political parties are dividing the country when the segment on CNN’s At This Hour went off the rails and turned […]
November 24, 2016 no responses
Will Prince Harry Make a Slavery Apology?
By Tom Sykes
As Bob Dylan, among others, has observed, you can’t please all the people all of the time.
Even if you’re Prince Harry.
Thus it was that Monday it was the turn of the usually universally adored ginger royal to experience a whiff of unpopularity, as he undertook his first day of engagements in […]
October 26, 2016 no responses
A Case for Non-Symbolic Reparation
Harvard should not limit its outreach to Antigua
By THE CRIMSON EDITORIAL BOARD
Last week, the Antiguan Ambassador to the United States, Sir Ronald Sanders, asked Harvard to follow in Georgetown’s footsteps and provide reparations to Antigua and Barbuda, citizens of which are descendants of slaves previously owned by the Royall family whose donation funded […]
October 6, 2016 no responses
Researchers trace Suriname rice back to Africa, suggesting new link with slave trade
NEW YORK, USA — A team of researchers has traced a type of rice grown in the South American country of Suriname to a similar type found in the fields of Ivory Coast, revealing additional linkages between “New World” and “Old World” crops that likely resulted from the slave trade.
“This evidence is an incentive to […]
October 1, 2016 no responses
The racist ideas of slave owners are still with us today
On Sunday evening, the ITV series Victoria imagined Prince Albert addressing the great anti-slavery convention at Exeter Hall, on the continued existence of the slave trade and slavery. It went so far as to show an encounter between Albert, a freed African-American and American feminists attending the convention.
It was engaging television. […]
October 1, 2016 no responses
Suriname Indigenous People’s Day
Indigenous People’s Day is one of the public holidays in the Republic of Suriname. It is celebrated on August 9, coinciding with the United Nations International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The UN General Assembly declared August 9 as International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in December 1994. In 2007, the government of […]
September 27, 2016 no responses
US owes blacks reparations over slavery: UN experts
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The United States should give African Americans reparations for slavery, UN experts said Tuesday, warning that the country had not yet confronted its legacy of “racial terrorism”.
Amid a presidential election campaign in which racial rhetoric has played a central role, the UN working group on people of African descent warned that […]
September 26, 2016 no responses
An open letter on the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
In the face of rising racism, scholars, activists and civil society organisations express their support for the UN Working Group on People of African Descent, and call on the UN to heed the call for reparatory justice.
To the Human Rights Council, the High Commissioner for Human rights and the General Assembly of the United […]
September 16, 2016 no responses
The man stuffed and displayed like a wild animal
In the early 19th Century, it was fashionable for Europeans to collect wild animals from around the globe, bring them home and put them on display. One French dealer went further, bringing back the body of an African warrior. Dutch writer Frank Westerman came across the exhibit in a Spanish museum 30 years ago, and […]
September 16, 2016 no responses
Exposing America’s Hidden Past as a Center for the Slave-Breeding Industry
By Frank Joyce
Slaves during slavery in the South. Photograph display on Gullah culture at Boone Hall Plantation.Photo Credit: Flickr, denisbin Slavery […]
September 9, 2016 no responses
Descendants of 272 Georgetown University Slaves React to Reparations
by Ian Scoville Hoya Staff Writer
A group of descendants of the 272 slaves sold by Georgetown University in 1838 is seeking to establish a $1 billion foundation in partnership with the university and the Jesuits of Maryland to fund scholarships for descendants a week after University President John J. DeGioia announced they would receive an […]
