California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has approved the creation of a task force to examine paying reparations to the descendants of slaves, the first such proposal ever passed by a state government. Newsom signed AB 3121 into law on Wednesday, creating a nine-member task force to study possible reparations for black Americans. While the governor lamented that the legislation hadn’t been passed “decades ago,” he hailed […]
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A specially set up task force will look into ways to compensate the descendants of slaves for the losses their ancestors suffered before the 13th amendment abolished slavery across the US in 1865. California’s State Senate has thrown its weight behind creating a nine-member commission to study and make recommendations for reparations to African-Americans, primarily slaves’ descendants. The measure now returns to the Assembly for a […]
Rapper T.I. recently in an interview discussed his thoughts on reparations and he claimed that every African-American should receive $1 million dollars. T.I. states, “So I ain’t just trying to just, you know what I’m saying, come up with some that I’m trying to benefit myself on. This is something that I feel that the entire diaspora of us who have been victimized in America can […]
As reparations become a more and more popular topic while anti-police and anti-racism protests rage across the US, rapper Ice Cube wants to see Hollywood studios take part and give yearly payments to black-owned companies. “I think these studios that we know and love should kick in to a studio that’s ran by black people with no outside influences, and whose movies and projects are owned […]
Asheville Approves Reparations For Black Residents By Joel Burgess, Asheville Citizen Times. July 16, 2020 Asheville Approves Reparations For Black Residents2020-07-162020-07-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/h14-asheville-nc-e1594942731965.jpg200px200px Above photo: Asheville apologizes for slavery. From Democracy Now. Asheville, NC – In an extraordinary move, the City Council has apologized for the city’s historic role in slavery, discrimination and denial of basic liberties to Black residents and voted to provide reparations to them and their descendants. The […]
The city council in Asheville, North Carolina approved paying reparations to black residents, while a mayor in Rhode Island signed an order promising to look into the act, leading many to argue this is the start of a major trend. “Hundreds of years of Black blood spilled that basically fills the cup we drink from today,” Keith Young, one of black members of the Asheville City […]
The City Council in Ashville, N.C., has apologized for its role in slavery and voted unanimously to provide reparations to black residents in the city. The reparations will not give black residents direct cash payments, but instead will offer investments in housing, health care and career growth in black neighborhoods. The resolution calls on the city to create a Community Reparations Commission to make concrete recommendations […]
Economic Justice Rally Pushes For City Level Reparations July 9, 2020 Economic Justice Rally Pushes For City Level Reparations2020-07-092020-07-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/saintpaulrecoveryactreparationsrally-1200×675-e1594311540874.png200px200px St. Paul, MN – After weeks of intense protests following the murder of George Floyd by police, Minnesota organizers are pushing legislative changes to bring forth justice for the Black community. One of those items is a bill that would distribute reparations for descendants of slaves in […]
Reparations And The Palestinian Right Of Return By Miko Peled, Mintpress News. June 24, 2020 Reparations And The Palestinian Right Of Return2020-06-242020-06-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/peled-e1593024153614.jpg200px200px Above photo: Barbara Martin looks at a display about slavery in Mobile, Ala. after the discovery of the remains of the slave ship Clotilda, Aug. 26, 2019. Jay Reeves | AP. Two Sides of the Same Bloody Coin. Both in Israel and the US, conversations […]
Why are white people sending unsolicited donations to their black friends – or forking it over to total strangers? The phenomenon may have begun as satire, but like so many jokes in 2020, “mini-reparations” have become reality. With race relations in the US front and center ever since last month’s police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, some people are taking the matter of reparations for […]
As we reported yesterday — Antifa domestic terrorists set up an “autonomous zone” in six square blocks in Seattle over the weekend. The antifa terrorists are advocating for “folks with firearms” to take shifts defending the barricades. The Antifa group set up barricades at the border and certain areas for dining and public speech. Andy Ngo reported on this yesterday. TRENDING: Antifa Domestic Terrorists Take Over […]