The Associated Press (AP) appeared to defend San Francisco’s proposal to grant $5 million in reparations to each long-term black resident of the city on Wednesday, pushing back against residents who dared question the idea.
California, which entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, is now considering reparations of up to $360,000 per eligible recipient — more than 50% more than the amount floated as the highest possibility last year.
No mathematical calculations justify a San Francisco committee’s recent proposal to provide $5 million in reparations to long-term black residents of the city, according to a report by the Washington Post.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Big Money Show,” Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) stated that Shelby County, Tennessee considering using federal coronavirus relief funds on reparations programs is an abuse of money that was allocated in the name of
Activists are upset that the Bruce family, which received oceanfront property last year that was unjustly taken from its forebears by the government, has now sold it back to Los Angeles County for $20 million.
Disney’s Hulu docuseries “The 1619 Project” has put a price tag on slavery reparations for black Americans. The final bill for U.S. taxpayers will come to about $14 trillion — and that, one “expert” says, is letting America off easy.
The controversial reparations committee in San Francisco had to postpone a meeting after one of its members got stuck in Colombia.
California Secretary of State Dr. Shirley N. Weber said that the Golden State can “lead the nation” by passing reparations for the descendants of black slaves.
The Disney+ animated kids series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is pushing reparations for slavery, claiming in its latest episode that America was founded on “white supremacy” and “still has not atoned” for its racism. In the episode titled “Juneteenth,”
Kamilah V. Moore, the chair of California’s reparations committee, posted several tweets over the weekend that supported taxing the wealthy, or raising estate and property taxes, to pay for payments to black recipients.
California’s reparations task force met Friday and was told by one speaker that the suggested $223,000 per resident is not enough.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (FL-R) is a “full-blown white supremacist” for banning from Florida’s schools an African American studies AP course.
Richie Greenberg, former independent mayoral candidate in San Francisco, California, said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak that the majority of the city’s residents have “no hope for a return” to the normalcy of its “pre-pandemic” status quo.
A San Francisco committee to study the idea of paying reparations for slavery has proposed that each long-term black resident of the city receive $5 million, though California entered the Union as a free state in 1850.
Multiple House Democrats are reportedly pushing again for reparations and a national apology for slavery, according to Fox News.
The Church of England announced that it has committed £100 million in a reparations-style package for its role in the historical slave trade.
Black Californians should each receive $1 million and black people who are homeless should be first in line, according to the state’s Reparations Task Force chair.
Barbados may seek reparations from Benedict Cumberbatch’s family for owning slaves, as the actor’s ancestors owned a slave plantation on the island during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Outspoken actor and comedian Faizon Love believes the reparations money that California is planning on giving to black residents will ultimately be wasted, saying the cash will be used to buy flashy cars.
An activist and political candidate warned a California state committee on reparations for slavery this week that there will be a “serious backlash” unless the state agrees to pay $800,000 to every eligible recipient.
Activists are demanding California pay black residents and black-owned businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars each in reparations.
California’s committee to discus reparations for slavery will meet Wednesday in Oakland to discuss eligibility requirements for payments from the state — a state that entered the Union as a free state in 1850.
Jordan E. Cooper’s Broadway production of ‘Ain’t No Mo’ is closing less than three weeks after its opening day.
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones (D) is creating a reparations commission to address the area’s past racial issues.
Colombia’s far-left vice president Francia Márquez demanded on Monday that United Nations member states commit to “establish[ing] historical reparations actions” for Afro-descendants and African people in the name of “racial justice.”
If Democrat lawmakers in New York have their way, the black ancestors of slaves will receive a sweet taxpayer-funded payoff.
The State of California could be facing $233,000 in reparations for each black resident who qualifies as a descendant of African American slaves, according to a consulting report prepared for a special state panel.
California is considering reparations for “mass incarceration,” among several other grievances, as the state considers paying cash to the descendants of black slaves — though California entered the Union as a free state.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) vowed that Republicans in the House are “going to do everything that we can” to block the Biden administration from paying into
Jews are now facing “judgment” and daily “calamity” for “the horror of what [their] parents have done to black people in America and throughout the world,” according to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who defended Ye and Kyrie Irving’s recent antisemitic scandals as he demanded that Jews pay “reparation,” repent for their “evil to us” and apologize for the transatlantic slave trade.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government has signalled it is open to discussing climate “reparations” for the likes of Pakistan, as he prepares tax hikes and public service cuts at home in the name of fiscal responsibility.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya will keynote a speech at an organization that preaches the “end of capitalism,” open borders, the Green New Deal, reparations, and the abolition of immigration enforcement agencies.
The head of Poland’s governing Law and Justice (PiS) party has claimed that Germany owes his country cash reparations for Germany’s actions in the Second World War, claiming that Poland suffered as much as 1.3 trillion euros of damage.
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.
