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Germany to pay Holocaust survivors over $1 billion in reparations. Here's where the money will go.
The youngest Holocaust survivors are now in their late ‘70s, and the challenges that come with aging mean their needs have never been greater. That’s why the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has agreed with the German Federal Ministry of Finance to provide $1.4 billion in direct compensation and social welfare services for …
Trevor Noah Is Kind Of In Awe Of ‘Racism Innovator’ Tommy Tuberville’s Ability To Dismiss Reparations While Blaming Crime On Black People: ‘It’s Like The Stuffed Crust Pizza Of Racism’
Between Kanye West’s interview with Tucker Carlson and L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez’s leaked audio about wanting to give her white colleague’s Black son “a beatdown,” it’s been a big week for racism. And Trevor Noah wanted to talk about all of it — especially Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville’s impressive feat of cramming more …
NAACP Blasts Tuberville For Racist Reparations Comment
Reparations refers to the process of compensating the ancestors of enslaved people for the suffering they endured, as well as centuries of the systemic inequality spawned by slavery. Democrats have no official party position on reparations, although a bill to study the issue received support from a House of Representatives committee last year and has …
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California task force report outlines plans for reparations, bringing the conversation forward again
A California state task force released a new report detailing the harm committed against Black people in American history. The nearly 500-page report gives recommendations for ways to right the wrongdoings that “continue to physically and mentally harm African Americans today.” It also includes a detailed history of how the government disadvantaged Black people systemically, …
Judge rules Tulsa Massacre reparations lawsuit can proceed for the three remaining victims
I learned about the Tulsa Massacre in graduate school and upon learning about it, I thought my previous education had failed me, but I learned it wasn’t just me. Turns out that most students didn’t learn about the history of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street and the atrocities that occurred to set the residents back. Surprisingly, …
‘Pure fear’: TikToker says white grandfather believes antique trunk will release spirits of slaves demanding reparations
A TikToker says that his white grandfather refuses to hand over the key to a trunk that contains slave records because the older man believes the souls of former slaves will “storm” him and ask for reparations. User @leogorcey, who posted the video on Friday, wrote that the trunk is located in “deep South Georgia.” …