This century will know no greater mass movement than the struggle for reparations. It is no longer a matter of if, but when.
By Hilary Beckles
At the 2001 United Nations Conference on Race and Xenophobia in Durban, South Africa, it was evident that the reparations struggle would evolve into the greatest and most transforming political and […]
The conversation surrounding reparations is underway and the U.S. government must take a leading role.
By Sheila Jackson Lee
For nearly three decades, my former colleague Rep. John Conyers of Michigan would introduce H.R. 40, legislation seeking to establish a commission to study and develop reparation proposals. Though many thought it a lost cause, he believed that […]
Africa is now free of direct colonial domination, but the cause of African Liberation continues, having changed from one of fighting for independence to one for stopping wars, healing wounds and uniting to consolidate its political liberation in ways that will eventually yield the levels of economic liberation that continue to elude the continent more […]
This month, the movement against Chicago police violence celebrated the fifth anniversary of the passing of the historic reparations ordinance. Born out of more than three decades of legal and political struggle waged by an intergenerational and interracial movement comprised of torture survivors, their families and lawyers, activists and their organizations, and a handful of […]
Keerti Gopal, Reporter
May 22, 2020
Just over 100 participants gathered through Zoom on Thursday for a virtual town hall on Evanston’s historic reparations fund.
The fund, established through a city resolution passed in November 2019, will consist of revenue from the cannabis sales tax and aim to address the continued disenfranchisement of black residents through the legacy […]
On May 4, 1969 James Forman, spokesman for the National Black Economic Development Conference (NBEDC), presented in the Christian church of Riverside in New York, United States, the Black Manifesto asking the white Christian churches and Jewish synagogues for five hundred million dollars of compensations for the African American population.
In the following decades there were […]
Capitalism and Slavery – DAY 2 – Secondary School Student Sessions
Panel Discussion 5 Reparation Chair Dorbrene O’Marde Dr June Soomer Rodney Worrell
Session 4 Sugar Plantations and Capital Accumulation Chair Dr. Mc Collin Dr. Zahedieh Dr. Cateau.
Panel Discussion 3 Decolonising Caribbean History Dr Sasha Tuner Chair Dr Sherry Ann Singh.
Session 2 Focus Session Williams’ Caribbean Vision Dexnell Peters.
The Caricom Reparations Commission is a project under the auspices of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM.
Archivering En Reparations (PPTX)
Greater Georgetown, Guyana
info@caribbeanreparations.org
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