reparations

The African Union (AU), which unites countries across the African continent, declared its theme for 2025 to be the “Year of Reparations” at its conference this weekend in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The leftist Labour Party government is reportedly considering talks with Caribbean nations on the issue of reparations for the British Empire’s role in the slave trade.

Tuesday, during a radio town hall hosted by iHeartRadio “The Breakfast Club” host Charlamagne tha God simulcasted on CNN, Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, weighed in on the possibility of slavery reparations.

Vice President Kamala Harris expressed openness to reparations during a Tuesday interview with Charlamagne tha God. 

The head of Haiti’s “Transitional Presidential Council” demanded “historical reparations” for his country at the U.N. General Assembly.

A reparations task force is a waste of time and takes the focus off real issues facing New York City, such as the impact of migrant crime and Venezuelan gangs, Republican New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

Kamala Harris expressed openness to reparations during a gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday.

Not even campaign aides are sure of what Vice President Kamala Harris’s policy positions are, Axios reported Friday.

The radical left is pressuring its ally, Vice President Kamala Harris, to continue to support the controversial idea of reparations for black Americans.  

Vice President Kamala Harris remained silent on Monday about whether she supports a package of reparations bills in California.

Black legislators were furious Saturday as a pair of bills to fund reparations stalled in the California state legislature as Gov. Gavin Newsom warned about costs, and activists warned Kamala Harris could suffer politically as a result.

A California pro-reparations group is threatening Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state legislators to pass slavery reparations bills, or the racial backlash will have a “direct impact” on Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

CNN failed to ask Vice President Kamala Harris about a number of relevant topics in Thursday’s interview.

The San Diego Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to support 14 bills making their way through the California legislature to provide reparations for slavery, even though California entered the Union in 1850 as a free state.

Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed “some form of reparations” for “black people,” an unearthed video from 2019 reveals. 

Vice President Kamala Harris, who Democrat leaders are backing to replace President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential race, is reportedly a “dues-paying member” to a church where the pastor has called for reparations, even serving as a the vice chair of California’s reparations task force.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and state legislators struck a deal this weekend to close a $47 billion budget deficit — and agreed to spend $12 million to implement proposals to provide reparations for slavery.

The California State Assembly voted Thursday to issue an apology for the state’s role in slavery — though California entered the Union as a “free state” in 1850.

Asheville, North Carolina’s Community Reparations Commission finally released a list of recommendations it wants leaders to pursue.

Comedian Katt Williams took on the subject of reparations during his new Netflix stand-up special Woke Foke, saying the tens of billions of dollars the U.S. has sent to Ukraine should go instead to black Americans.

California Democrats continue to pursue legislation aimed at reparations for slavery — even though the Golden State entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, and even though the state currently faces a massive budget deficit.

Haitian civil society groups argue that France should pay at least $150 billion in reparations to Haiti for slavery and its aftermath.

Freshman Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) suggested that black Americans should be exempt from paying taxes as a form of reparations.

Tennessee is divided over reparations, with a black Memphis pastor leading the charge against a bill that would prohibit the funding of a proposed reparations study in the state.

An op-ed in The Hill urges the president to “show concern for rebuilding a vital bridge — and for building a bridge of inclusion for Black American workers in the construction industry as well.”

Boston, Massachusetts, Christian leaders are calling on “white churches” to dole out millions of dollars in reparations to black people to rectify their history with slavery.

Black residents of Chicago should receive reparations in the form of no property taxes, a local activist group says.

Radical-left activist and former politician Nina Turner marked Presidents’ Day, the holiday officially named “Washington’s Birthday,” by attempting to vilify America’s first president and founding father as well as other early U.S. presidents. 

MSNBC host Joy Reid lamented that black Americans have not received sufficient reparations for “literally, physically” building this country, believing that former President Barack Obama’s eight-year tenure is the best they will get.

The City of San Francisco is poised to issue a formal apology to black residents for decades of racial discrimination against them throughout its history, according to a resolution introduced Tuesday that the Board of Supervisors is likely to approve.

Legislators in California have introduced a first-in-the-nation package of reparations bills that aims to redress the legacy of racism in America. There is only one small catch: the reparations being offered do not include any actual cash payments.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman has proposed a $14 trillion reparations plan “for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States.”

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday eagerly touted a report from two climate alarmist think tanks, Common Wealth in the United Kingdom and the Climate and Community Project in the United States, that claimed the British and American militaries “owe” $111 billion in “climate reparations” to communities supposedly threatened by their carbon emissions.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responded to a question on an uptick in most violent crime categories in the city in 2023 by stating that money “for restoration and reparations” will help address the “cycle of violence” in the city.

A crushing budget deficit has forced San Francisco Mayor London Breed to cut the budget of the Office of Reparations, which was considering lavish payouts to long-term black residents of the city, though it never practiced or allowed slavery.

Former slave-trading countries should pay Barbados $4.9 trillion in reparations, the Caribbean country’s leftist prime minister has demanded.