By Manisha Sinha
The nation was a beacon for the anti-slavery cause
August 24, 2016
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August 21, 2016
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Trafalgar Square hosts first ever memorial service for transatlantic slave trade
The first ever memorial service for the victims of the transatlantic slave trade and African Holocaust was held in London’s Trafalgar Square.
August 17, 2016
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The Reparations Movement: “A Ragtag Collection of Racial Malcontents Marching to the Beat of Their Own Drum?”
By Dr. June Soomer
The Reparations Movement: “A Ragtag Collection of Racial Malcontents Marching to the Beat of Their Own Drum?”
I would like to thank the National Reparations Committee for inviting me to deliver this inaugural lecture to launch the Committee. Since I was on the inside I know what it has taken to reach this […]
August 17, 2016
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Message to the St. Lucia Reparations Event from Don Rojas
Your Excellencies,
Members of the diplomatic Corps,
Distinguished guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Sisters and Brothers of St. Lucia.
Please accept my apologies for not being present at this important event but currently I’m on my way to Canada for a family funeral. However, I wish to congratulate the National Reparations Commission of St. Lucia for organizing this function and allow […]
August 14, 2016
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New ACS Secretary General to deliver inaugural Reparations lecture in St. Lucia
ACS Secretary General Dr. June Soomer
Saint Lucia will take the reparations message to the […]
August 14, 2016
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Can Black Lives Matter work in Brazil, where ‘repression means death’?
By Kim Brunhuber
Every week or so, Ana Oliveira and Fatima Pinho meet on the rooftop deck of Oliveira’s modest home in the Rio favela of Manguinhos. They’re drawn together by the faces stenciled on a large black cloth — smiling faces of young black men. There are dates written underneath. Under her son Jonathan’s face […]
August 11, 2016
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Two hundred years after emancipation, ‘Are we there yet?’
By Christopher Famous
Are we there yet?
This is a question frequently asked by persons on a journey to a place not yet known to them.
In 1834, England declared that all enslaved persons throughout the British Empire were to be set free of slavery. August 1st was to be their emancipation day.
Ah, at long last, the elusive […]
August 9, 2016
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‘This is the Biggest Case in History’: Fight Goes on for Slavery Reparations
By Ben Stensall
The 1st of August marked African Emancipation Day. Thousands of people marched from Brixton to Parliament as part of an ongoing campaign for reparations to make amends for the generations of slavery that claimed the lives of millions of Africans, who ended up displaced and were forced to work to support Britain’s booming […]
August 9, 2016
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Emancipation and Economic Resilience
by Maxwell Haywood
The story of the resilience of the former enslaved black population in St. Vincent & the Grenadines (SVG) is part of the global narrative of the resilience of people of African descent throughout the world, who experienced the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism. That heritage of resilience is becoming more vital to the […]
August 5, 2016
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Black Lives Matter Activists Stage Protests Across Britain
LONDON — Black activists, responding to calls for a nationwide protest against racial injustice, staged demonstrations in London and several other cities across Britain on Friday, in their boldest show of support to date for the emerging Black […]
August 5, 2016
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Black Lives Matter activists launch Abolition Square encampment, demanding reparations, end to Broken Windows policing
Revolution is in the air again in New York City.
Five years after the launch of Occupy Wall Street, activists have begun a new occupation. This is not Occupy 2.0, however. This protest, stationed at a park across from City Hall in lower Manhattan, was organized by the Movement for Black Lives.
On Aug. 1, activists built […]
August 5, 2016
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Anti-Occupation Activists Stand with Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter movement’s advocacy for Palestinians has caused a rift to open over Israel between younger and older American Jews, and there’s no sign of it mending any time soon.
This week, activists from Jewish Voice for Peace and other groups stood behind Black Lives Matter while more conservative parts of the American Jewish […]
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