A Chicago neighborhood is testing out a reparations program for Black residents who resided in the area during the city’s harsh era of racial discrimination. The suburb known as Evanston, which has roughly 78,100 residents, has shelled out money to 16 residents who lived in the region between 1919 and …
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Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Plan On Appealing Judge’s Decision To Dismiss Lawsuit for Reparations
Last Friday, Judge Caroline Wall quietly dismissed the lawsuit filed by the three remaining survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Now, the Plaintiffs are planning to appeal her decision. Known as the country’s deadliest act of racial violence, the Tulsa Race Massacre left a negative impact on Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108, Viola Fletcher, 109, and …
Read More »Gov. Newsom Declines to Endorse California Task Force’s Reparations Check Proposal, Says Its “About Much More Than Cash Payments”
Governor Gavin Newsom has rejected the reparations task force’s recommendation that black residents receive up to $1.2 million in cash. On Tuesday, Newsom told Fox News Digital that reparations, which are designed to atone for the country’s history of slavery and institutional racism, are “about much more than cash payments.” …
Read More »Cost of Reparations for Black Californians Could Exceed $800 billion
Economists say it could cost California $800 billion in reparations to compensate Black residents who have faced generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration, and housing discrimination. A preliminary estimate of the costs would exceed California’s $300 billion annual budget. It doesn’t include the $1 million recommended for health disparities that have …
Read More »San Francisco to Consider Reparations Plans That Would Give $5M To Each Qualifying Black Resident
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will discuss a proposal this Tuesday during a board meeting that would give $5 million to qualifying Black residents in reparations. The proposal is one way the city could make amends for slavery. The city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee will present the idea, …
Read More »San Francisco Reparations Committee Proposes That Each Black Longterm Resident Receive $5M and Debt Forgiveness
A reparations committee in San Francisco proposes paying each longtime Black resident $5 million and debt forgiveness after decades of “systematic repression.” Last month, the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee released its draft report on reparations – not for slavery, since California was not a slave state but …
Read More »Barbados Reparations Chair Clears Up Rumors About Plan To Go After Benedict Cumberbatch
The deputy chairperson of the National Task Force on Reparations in Barbados has cleared the confusion surrounding English actor Benedict Cumberbatch. Late last month, The Telegraph reported that Cumberbatch and his family were on a target list in a bid to obtain financial compensation for the descendants of enslaved people …
Read More »California Panel Estimates $569 Billion in Reparations Is Owed To Black Residents
A California task force studying slavery and systemic racism has estimated the descendants of enslaved people are owed $569 billion in reparations. According to the New York Times, due to housing discrimination practices used from 1933 to 1977, black Californians whose ancestors lived in the US in the 19th century …
Read More »California Releases Reparations Detailed Report Showing Harms of Slavery and Systemic Discrimination on African Americans
A statewide reparations report conducted in California has detailed the deep roots that slavery has had on the state over the years. The first-of-its-kind report was released on Wednesday and explained how the enslavement of Blacks in California eventually evolved over time into the racist social structure that exists today. …
Read More »Tulsa Race Massacre Reparations Lawsuit Moves Forwards After Judge Votes Against Dismissal
A judge has ruled that the 1921 Tulsa race massacre lawsuit may move forward after the defendants pushed to have it dismissed. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are seeking reparations for the deadly May 1921 massacre that claimed the lives of many Black people in the prosperous Black Greenwood neighborhood, …
Read More »California Task Group Votes To Limit Reparations To Black Americans Who Are Descendants Of Enslaved Black People In America
A California task force has voted to limit reparations to descendants of enslaved Black people. On Tuesday, a California task force voted to limit reparations to the ancestors of Black families who were in the U.S. in the 19th century. According to task force member and civil rights attorney Lisa …
Read More »People Are Coming Together to Build Reparation Funds for Black People; Critics Say it’s the Government’s Job to Provide a Reparations Plan
White people are sending Black people money as “reparations.” A Louisville organization called Reparations Roundtable and other groups alike use social media to crowdfund money and distribute it to Black people as reparations. They say their mission is to help Black people financially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic …
Read More »California Giving Reparations To Victims Of Forced Sterilization
California is set to pay reparations to the victims of eugenics, which is a practice that determined that certain people, including those with mental illness or disabilities, shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce due to “undesirable traits.” Once approved, the state will give about $25,000 to the survivors who experienced sterilization, as …
Read More »America’s First Black Billionaire, Robert Johnson, Pushes for $14 Trillion in Reparations
Robert L. Johnson, the founder of BET is pushing a $14 trillion reparations proposal that he believes would potentially close the giant wealth gap between Black and white people. According to Vice, the 75-year-old businessman and first black billionaire wants the United States government to give Black Americans a check …
Read More »Descendants Of Enslaved Workers at Virginia Theological Seminary Receive $2,100 In Reparations Every Year
Linda Johnson-Thomas recently learned that her grandfather, a former worker at the Virginia Theological Seminary, was forced to work at the school. According to CNN, the grandfather, John Samuel Thomas, Jr., was a farm laborer turned head janitor at the school located in Alexandria. Linda’s grandparents lived in a little …
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