A call for a host of taxes on the U.S. and European nations designed to transfer wealth to economies confronting “the cost of drought, floods and superstorms made worse by rising temperatures” was renewed Wednesday at a U.N. climate conference in Germany.
The State of California, which entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, has issued a 492-page interim report recommending the state pay reparations for slavery and for other acts of racial injustice, nationally and locally, over the last two centuries.
President Joe Biden has done a total reversal on his reported plans to make $450,000 payouts to nearly 1,000 illegal alien families, now demanding their lawsuits be dropped.
Robin Morris Collin, appointed by Biden’s EPA Administrator Michael Regan to be his senior adviser to “advance environmental justice and civil rights in communities,” says that environmental reparations would help heal “our relationships to each other and to nature.”
The University of California system announced it will cover all tuition and other costs for Native Americans who are members of federally recognized tribes.
An internal investigation into the history of slavery associated with Harvard University reported Tuesday that several people associated with the institution owned a total of 70 slaves, and that Harvard benefited from money donated by slave owners.
Harvard University is committing $100 million to study its ties to slavery and create a “Legacy of Slavery Fund” to explore reparations for the descendants of slaves associated with the Ivy League institution.
A state panel considering reparations for slavery in California, which entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, voted 5-4 on Tuesday to limit benefits to those who could actually show they were descended from slaves, not all who happen to be black.
Protesters in Jamaica called for the United Kingdom to pay reparations as Prince William and Kate arrived visit the island.
China should pay the U.S. “reparations” for injuries and deaths caused by COVID-19 and drug abuse related to fentanyl, David McCormick said.
British comedy icon John Cleese had his mic taken by woke co-panellists at an event in Austin, Texas, after pointing out that British imperialism was not unique and that the British, too, were once slaves.
California’s state panel on “reparations” for slavery postponed a decision on who should qualify for compensation — whether only the descendants of slaves, or all people of color, based on the idea that the United States suffers from “systemic racism.”
Germany announced Wednesday it will grant an additional $720 million to over 300 international welfare organisations to support disabled and vulnerable Holocaust survivors.
The newest reparations-style plan from President Joe Biden ditches cash payouts to border crossers subjected to former President Trump’s “Zero Tolerance Policy” and, instead, provides them with amnesty to permanently resettle in the United States.
Dr. Lisa Cook, one of President Joe Biden’s nominees for the Federal Reserve board of governors, has a history of canceling those critical of Black Lives Matter (BLM), supporting reparations, and advocating for policies that could politicize the Fed.
Former Black Lives Matter leader Patrisse Cullors is bringing more of her activism to the entertainment industry with projects advocating for racialized reparations in a book and new television projects for Warner Bros.
The California city of Santa Monica is offering housing to black families that owned homes in the path of Interstate 10 and other urban renewal projects built in the 1950s.
During an appearance on this week’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” President Donald Trump argued China should be held accountable for its role in the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A plan being circulated by President Joe Biden’s administration that would give payments of $450,000 to each border crosser subjected to former President Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy would outpace payments to the victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
Republicans are blasting a plan being circulated by President Joe Biden’s administration that would give $450,000 to each border crosser subjected to former President Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy, calling it “civilizational homicide” and an “assault on American sovereignty.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and other state lawmakers created a task force to study how best to provide reparations to black persons now may expand benefits beyond those with ancestors who were slaves to people who have faced other alleged injustices after slavery was abolished.
Labour MP Richard Burgon said the UK should ship reparations to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, echoing demands from Stop the War Coalition.
The far-left Stop the War Coalition has called for the British taxpayer to pay “reparations” to the Taliban to “rebuild Afghanistan”.
Discussing reparations from China for its responsibility in the coronavirus’ spread and cover-up of its origins, conservative radio legend Michael Savage suggested a nuanced approach of imposing tariffs on the communist regime and weighed canceling debt as a less confrontational means of achieving reparations.
If the China is responsible for the virus, then China should be liable for its costs. Human ethics, common sense, and even international law tell us that the communist regime in Beijing should pay for the harm it caused. Here’s how the U.S. and the world could seek compensation.
Sixty-three percent of Americans believe the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should pay pandemic reparations, according to a TIPP poll released Tuesday conducted for the Center for Security Policy.
Jamaica plans to seek billions of pounds in reparations from the UK as compensation for the Atlantic slave trade.
The nation’s first black billionaire and founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), Robert L. Johnson, claims that the only way for the U.S. to get past its history with slavery is to pay reparations to black people.
CT Sen. Rob Sampson (R) said he views the move by Democrats to push Critical Race Theory into the nation’s schools “Trojan reparations.”
The town of Amherst, Massachusetts, is establishing a reparations fund in order to make restitution to its black residents.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, whose city is suffering from homelessness, economic disruption, and drought, launched a nationwide commission on slavery reparations on Friday, Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity (MORE).
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders addressed the opening of California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans on Tuesday, stressing the historic importance of the commission.
BERLIN (AP) – Germany said Monday it is close to an agreement with Namibia on the killings of tens of thousands of people when Germany was the southern African country’s colonial ruler over a century ago.
In President Joe Biden’s first 100 days, the Democrats have proposed radical initiatives contrary to Biden’s “back to normalcy” campaign sold to the American people.
President Biden is “committed” to the concept of setting up a commission to examine issuing reparations to black Americans for slavery, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said this week.
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee approved a bill Wednesday that would create a commission to study reparations for black Americans for slavery. The vote was along party lines, 25 Democrats voting yes and 17 Republicans voting against.
Left-wing Hollywood activists Alyssa Milano and Chelsea Handler are pressing President Joe Biden to take action on slavery reparations, arguing that financial compensation to black Americans is necessary to combat racism and “white supremacy.”
Instead of obsessing about the worst parts of America’s past, perhaps we should remind ourselves how we transcended them.
The liberal Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, officially approved the first spending for “reparations” for black residents on Monday evening. It is the nation’s first reparations program, following an 8-1 vote by local aldermen in November 2019.
Appearing Wednesday on CNN’s New Day, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) “ought to be ashamed of himself” for labeling aid to black farmers “reparations.’
