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How can California provide reparations? A new report suggests several ways

The report recommends ways to address the "lingering negative effects" of slavery — from policing reforms to housing grants to increased voting access to free tuition.

June 01, 2022
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan and
  • Sarah Mizes-Tan / CapRadio
A general view of Harvard University campus is seen on April 22, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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  • Race

Harvard releases report detailing its ties to slavery, plans to issue reparations

A committee formed by Harvard President Lawrence Bacow found that Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people from the school's founding in 1636 to the banning of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783.

April 27, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A general view of Harvard University campus is seen on April 22, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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  • Race

Harvard releases report detailing its ties to slavery, plans to issue reparations

A committee formed by Harvard President Lawrence Bacow found that Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people from the school's founding in 1636 to the banning of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783.

April 27, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Rev. Amos Brown, senior pastor of Third Baptist Church, San Francisco, Calif., speaks is 2012. California's first-in-the-nation reparations task force meets in person Wednesday for the first time since its inaugural meeting nearly a year ago.

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  • Race

California reparations panel ready for first face-to-face meeting

The meeting comes ahead of a June report showing how the institution of slavery continues to reverberate throughout California.

April 13, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Pecolia Manigo of Reparations for Black Students speaks in a press conference at Oakland City Hall in Oakland, Calif., on Feb. 9, 2022.

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California group votes to limit reparations to slave descendants

The task force will meet again and hold a series of meetings as a report is due by June with a reparations proposal due by July 2023 for the Legislature to consider turning into law.

March 30, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
George Takei testifies before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in California in 1981.

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George Takei got reparations. He says they 'strengthen the integrity of America'

Eighty years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that sent thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Actor George Takei was among them.

February 21, 2022
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Stacie Marshall, who has inherited a farm in the northwest corner of Georgia, learned that her ancestors kept enslaved people. She is trying to bring that history to light and help heal her community.

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  • Race

Georgia Today: For Woman Whose Ancestors Enslaved People, The Fight For Racial Justice Is Personal

For one young farmer in Northwest Georgia named Stacie Marshall, her personal awakening began with a horrifying discovery: She learned that her ancestors kept enslaved people. On the latest Georgia Today podcast, we hear how she’s now working to heal race relations in her community.   

 

July 16, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Louisville, Ky., nonprofit Change Today, Change Tomorrow says it received a large reparations payment from a donor. "It is a blessing for us but also definitely owed," said Taylor Ryan (right), the group's founder, seen here with Deputy Director Nannie Grace Croney.

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  • Race

A Black Nonprofit Got A 6-Figure Payment From Someone Whose Family Enslaved People

The anonymous donor said that while investigating the origins of their family's wealth, they discovered their great-grandfather had owned six enslaved people in Bourbon County, Ky.

June 03, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Hattie Thomas Whitehead in the courtyard of Creswell Hall on the University of Georgia campus, mere feet from where the shotgun house she was raised in once stood. Thomas Whitehead and others with connections to the Athens neighborhood of Linnentown have won a mind of reparations for the neighborhood's erasure.

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Reparations For 'Terrorism,' 'White Supremacy' In Athens Mark A Georgia First

Former residents of the Athens neighborhood of Linnentown have won a kind of reparations for the erasure of the neighborhood in the urban renewal period.

April 14, 2021
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Evanston, Ill., just north of Chicago, is believed to be the first place in the United States to provide reparations to Black residents after its City Council on Monday approved a plan to address racial discrimination in housing.

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  • National

In Likely First, Chicago Suburb Of Evanston Approves Reparations For Black Residents

The new program, which aims to address harms suffered by Black residents due to the city's past discriminatory housing policies, is part of a larger reparations fund established in 2019.

March 23, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
U.S. Capitol at night

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  • Race

Biden Backs Reparations Study, As Dems Push For Commission

The White House on Wednesday indicated that President Joe Biden would support studying reparations for slavery, the same day that House Democrats held a hearing on legislation that would set up a reparations commission.

February 18, 2021
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By:
  • Ariana Figueroa
The City Council unanimously approved a resolution apologizing for the local government's historic role in slavery and for participating in racist and discriminatory policies that have led to oppression.

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  • Race

Asheville, N.C., Approves Steps Toward Reparations For Black Residents

"The blood capital that we have banked to spend today to fight for significant change came ... not from our allies but from Black men, women and children who died," said Councilman Keith Young.

July 16, 2020
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo

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