All Souls, which received substantial payment in 1710 from slave owner, to fund one student a year from Caribbean nations.
All Souls was left £10,000 by Christopher Codrington – equivalent to […]
May 30, 2018
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May 22, 2018
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The KONVWA POU REPARASYON, Goree Island, Dakar, Senegal
April 25 – May 2, 2018
Dorbrene E. O’Marde
Chairperson, Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission
The KONVWA POU REPARASYON was staged by The International Movement for Reparations (M.I.R.) in Goree Island, Dakar, Senegal during the period April 25 – May 2, 2018. The MIR has organized convoys across Martinique for years and for the first time extended […]
March 12, 2018
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Conference to Explore Racial Reconciliation Around the World
Tulane Law School is hosting a two-day conference that will explore the legal and practical challenges of racial reconciliation around the world.
The event March 16-17 is titled, “A Conference of Global Perspectives: Regimes of Redress and Reparations, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law” and is sponsored by the Gordon Gamm Faculty Scholar Fund and […]
March 3, 2018
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The Jamaica Paid a Heavy Price for Freedom
By Prof. Verene Shepherd (Centre for Reparation Research) And Ahmed Reid (City University of New York)
In a New York Times article by Stephen Castle of December 27, 2014, ironically the anniversary of the outbreak of the war led by Samuel Sharpe that hastened legislative Emancipation by the British, we learned that after a financial crash […]
February 28, 2018
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Reparations, Black History Month…
… and the International Decade for People of African Descent
Following is the full text of an address delivered by Earl Bousquet, Chairman of Saint Lucia’s National Reparations Committee (NRC) delivered at the Antigua Multipurpose Cultural Center on February 22nd 2018, at the invitation of the Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission (ABSRC)
INTRODUCTION
I was on […]
February 28, 2018
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Mike Henry steps up reparations fight
Member of Parliament (MP) for Central Clarendon in Jamaica, MIN. Mike Henry, is taking his decades-old fight for reparations for the descendants of slaves in the Caribbean all the way to Buckingham Palace. Henry told a press conference in Kingston last week that he has completed the draft of a petition he plans to pursue […]
February 28, 2018
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The CRR Media Conference on the British Treasury’s Slavery Loan
On September 30, 2015 when Prime Minister David Cameron of Great Britain & Northern Ireland addressed the Jamaican Parliament and told the people of the island and region that slavery was a long time ago and that it was time black people ‘get over it’, he was […]
February 9, 2018
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January 13, 2017
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REP. CONYERS INTRODUCES REVISED REPARATIONS BILL AS GRASSROOTS SUPPORT GROWS
Congressman John Conyers, the longest serving member of Congress, introduced a revised version of HR40, his long-standing reparations bill, at the start of the 115th Congress last week and grassroots U.S. and global support grows.
The new bill, entitled, “The Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans Act,” will focus on reparations remedies.
“The […]
January 13, 2017
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The slave trade made Scotland rich. Now we must pay our blood-soaked debts
At the turn of the year, after the giving, receiving and splurging are over, eyes turn wearily to outstanding bills, upcoming liabilities and the settling of accounts. This year, thanks to Brexit, no shortage of final demands and eye-watering bills will be appearing in the nation’s letterbox – and denial will not […]
December 14, 2016
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Petition to President Obama
We need your support. Please sign our petition to President Obama, urging him to establish a study on the impact of slavery in America.
Click her to sign the petition
November 29, 2016
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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 […]
