Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has approved legislation establishing a new state agency tasked with administering programs for descendants of slaves, marking the latest step in his years-long effort to advance reparations policies despite ongoing political and fiscal challenges.
The African Union has joined a campaign to demand reparations from former Colonial powers over “historic crimes” such as slavery.
The Jamaican government is enlisting King Charles to help get its demand for slavery reparations heard at the highest level.
Reparations are due now to compensate for the trans-Atlantic slave trade as a way to tackle “its legacy” in contemporary society, including “systemic racism and white supremacy.” That is the message a Caribbean delegation will take to Brussels and London on a visit designed to elicit cash payments as compensation for “slavery and colonialism.”
Chicago’s Democrat mayor, Brandon Johnson, announced a new task force to plan how the city can dole out slavery reparations.
The Tulsa Race Massacre might have happened 104 years ago, but innocent people must still pay, according to Tulsa’s Mayor Monroe Nichols IV, who was just elected in November.
Democrat Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) is slated to introduce a reparations resolution this week, as she believes it is a “moral and legal obligation” for Americans.
Lawmakers in Maryland this week overwhelmingly approved a measure to study reparations for slavery.
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.
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.
Leaders of the Church of England have been scrambling to assure the faithful that their proposed £1 billion fund for slavery reparations will not come from donations to parishes.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has declared reparations are due now to compensate for the trans-Atlantic slave trade as a way to tackle “its legacy” in today’s society, including “systemic racism and white supremacy.”
The Church of England has called for a billion-pound reparations package to atone for its historic links to slavery, a move that critics are calling “anti-Christian” and a “death wish.”
Former slave-trading countries should pay Barbados $4.9 trillion in reparations, the Caribbean country’s leftist prime minister has demanded.
The granddaughter of Nelson Mandela has demanded that the British Royal Family pay reparations for its role in colonialism in Africa.
California’s Democrat governor has seemingly rejected the idea of giving million-dollar slavery reparation checks to black residents of the state.
California’s reparations task force voted Saturday to approve a report with recommendations on state financial compensation for slavery alongside a formal apology.
The far-left city of San Francisco has been actively considering a slavery reparations package that aims to pay $5 million per person.
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.
People have been hammering Disney and its woke reboot of The Proud Family after a recent episode pushed BLM talking points.
Following the proposal of San Francisco’s reparations committee to pay longtime black residents billions of dollars in reparations, Utah’s Republican 4th District Rep. Burgess Owens slammed the conversation as “condescending,” arguing it “conveys a racist narrative that Black Americans are a hopeless, hapless, and oppressed race who need pity and handouts to succeed.”
The Church of England announced that it has committed £100 million in a reparations-style package for its role in the historical slave trade.
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.
If Democrat lawmakers in New York have their way, the black ancestors of slaves will receive a sweet taxpayer-funded payoff.
CNN host Don Lemon appeared dumbfounded after royal commentator Hilary Fordwich hit back with historical facts in response to his suggestion the royal
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.
Protesters in Jamaica called for the United Kingdom to pay reparations as Prince William and Kate arrived visit the island.
A math professor at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been vindicated after being suspended for social media posts criticizing slavery reparations. It remains unclear, however, whether the university will rehire the professor at the end of his current contract.
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 city council of Bristol has approved a motion calling for reparations for slavery as an act of “atonement” for the British port city’s role in the slave trade. The Labour Party-run council passed the motion by a margin of 47
Harvard recently produced a study on how reparations for slavery could reduce coronavirus transmissions and the death rate.
Heisman Trophy winner and NFL legend Herschel Walker testified against the Democrats’ proposal to establish a commission to study and develop reparations proposals in the United States, citing his faith and telling the lawmakers that “we use black power to create white guilt.”
Members of a House subcommittee debated legislation on Wednesday that would establish a federal commission to explore reparations for black Americans.
Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) expressed his opposition to “slavery reparations” Wednesday during his opening remarks as ranking member of a House Judiciary subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties.
Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder recalled his late father’s warnings about the Democrat Party while making a statement before a House hearing on “slavery reparations” on Wednesday.
During a “reparations rebellion” protest in London, Extinction Rebellion and BLM climate change activists demanded that financial institutions pay reparations for their role in the slave trade.
As we seek to chronicle everything, we can pause to observe that at one time or another—oftentimes, in fact, for thousands of years—virtually every society on the planet has been a slave-holding society. Indeed, it’s entirely possible that just about every human being on the planet today is the descendant both of slaves, and of slave-holders.
The “Racial Equity Task Force” at the University of Virginia recently published a report in which it demands the creation of a reparations fund for the descendants of slaves that helped build the university’s first buildings. Georgetown University adopted a similar initiative in late 2019.
Black Lives Matter activists stormed a Seattle neighborhood this week, harassing residents and demanding that they “get the f*** out.”
North Carolina’s Asheville City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to pass a repentant measure that formally apologizes to black residents and moves to issue reparations in the form of investments in certain areas of the community through the creation of the Community Reparations Commission.
