reparations
CNN — Amy Iwasaki Mass knows the power of apology and reparations. She was in the first grade when her family and more than a hundred thousand other Japanese Americans were rounded up by the federal government and sent to internment camps in response . . .
After the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis set off social justice protests and a racial reckoning in the summer of 2020, California created a task force to look into the issue of reparations. A nine-member panel conducted research on the harm done to the state’s roughly 2.5 million Black residents by systemic racism and […]
Metro By Carl Campanile Published March 17, 2024, 7:49 p.m. ET Two representatives appointed to a committee considering paying reparations . . .
A New York commission that will recommend whether to give reparations for slavery and discrimination to black residents hasn’t even met yet — but it’s already sparked a rift among black New Yorkers over who should be eligible for payouts. A similar panel in California said monetary reparations should be limited only to descendants of […]
Metro exclusive By Carl Campanile Published March 10, 2024, 1:36 p.m. ET A New York commission
Let’s start with the definition: Reparation noun the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged Now, learn even more about reparations in terms of politics and restorative justice. This selection of documentaries explore what reparations are, why they were made and […]
by Stacy Jackson February 6, 2024 In 1878, an all-white jury awarded Henrietta Wood $2,500, which would be more than $75,000 today, in reparations. In 1878, Henrietta Wood, a formerly “illegally” enslaved Black woman, was awarded $2,500 in reparations by an all-white jury — the most significant sum of its kind that a U.S. court […]
Reparations advocates had the wind in their sails last year. Cities across the US set up teams to hash out plans to compensate black people for the legacy of slavery, taking their cue from a successful pilot in Evanston, Illinois. The landscape in 2024 is very different.
George Adam Keller enslaved a man named Zeike Quarterman in 19th-century Georgia. Keller gave 10 acres of land to Quarterman and his wife, Grace, as a reparation. That land has remained in the Quarterman family since it was bestowed in 1890, but its legal categorization as heirs’ property has kept the Quartermans from using it. […]
Lawmaker tabled bill H.R. 414 in 2023 claiming the US has a ‘moral and legal obligation’ to make restitution to the descendants of slaves Bowman believes $14 T should be distributed to black people who make up 12 percent of US population Money could be paid out over five or 10 or 20 years in weekly […]