Rev. Dr. Willie Wilson, Pastor, Union Temple Baptist Church in Washington DC, speaks to the DC Justice Collaborative on “The Prison Labor System: 21st Century Slavery.”
April 25, 2015
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April 18, 2015
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Sir Hilary Beckles Speaks at National / International Reparations Summit
The Institute of the Black World 21st Century is committed to building the capacity of Black communities in the U.S. to work for the social, political, economic and cultural upliftment, the development of the global Black community and an enhanced quality of life for all marginalized people.
April 18, 2015
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October 17, 2014
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Closing Remarks – Antigua Reparations Conference
Hon. Lisa Hanna, Jamaica’s Minister of Culture and Youth, delivered closing remarks.
Pouring of libations – Antigua Reparations Conference
Leaders of the Caribbean Rastafari
Leaders of the Caribbean Rastafari community participated actively in the reparations conference.
October 15, 2014
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Establishment of The Bahamas National Reparations Committee
The following is a press statement by Fred Mitchell, Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration made on March 24th, 2014:
At the Thirty-First Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Regular Meeting held 23 July 2013, the Heads agreed on an action plan on the matter of reparations for native genocide and slavery, […]
October 12, 2014
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Second Caricom Reparation Conference
By The Most Honourable P.J Patterson ON, OCC, PC, QC
Honourable Gaston Brown, Prime Minister of Antigua & Barbuda, Hon. Freundal Stuart, Prime Minister of Barbados, and Chair of the CARICOM Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on Reparations, Minister Lisa Hanna, Minister of Youth & Culture and Leader of the Jamaican Delegation. Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Chair of […]
September 29, 2014
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Jamaica Calculates Its Reparations Money
By Bert Wilkinson
As governments and the civil society movement prepare for a major conference on reparations in idyllic Antigua next month, the Jamaicans have not surprisingly fired the first salvo in the battle over the amount that nations such as Britain would have to pay for their role in the brutal transAtlantic slave trade.
Jamaica’s […]
September 29, 2014
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Cuba Supports Caribbean Reparations
Cites Haitian Revolution as “forerunner” of liberation movements in Latin America and Caribbean
NEW YORK, United States, Monday September 29, 2014, CMC – Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla has called for “profound reform” of the United Nations, starting with the 15member Security Council, saying that the SecretaryGeneral should be “an advocator and guarantor of international […]
June 18, 2014
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Africans Have Apologized for Slavery, So Why Won’t the US?
Five years ago I stood in a slave castle on Senegal’s Gorée Island at the infamous Door of No Return. Our guide told us that once Africans walked through this doorway, which opened right into the Atlantic Ocean, they were gone forever. During the slave trade, shackled blacks were led out the door and forced […]
June 9, 2014
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Barbados Prime Minister Explains Unemployment Through Caribbean Slave History
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday June 9, 2014, CMC – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has cited traditional high Caribbean unemployment as a reason for current challenges to the National
Insurance Service (NIS) fund that pays relief benefits to workers who lose their jobs.
Derek Osbourne, an actuary at the Bahamian company, Horizonnow Consultants, who conducted an actuarial review […]
