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U.S. companies should consider slavery reparations, Vista Equity CEO says The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Black Americans especially hard after decades of social and economic injustices, but it also presents an opportunity for systemic change, said financier Robert Smith, the wealthiest...

Last night I caught this quote from him while watching the documentary American Dream/American Nightmare .

From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had increased exponentially, and such legislative...

I just finished reading "Life of a Klansman" -- and it is sickening how much White people know that we don't. I learned SO MUCH Black history in this book about Klansman - which is just crazy. If you are from New Orleans or anywhere in Lousiana - you have to read the book. Yeah, it's about the...

The lavish estates where Black people were enslaved usually whitewash their history. Here's how these places might begin to redeem themselves. Black Lives Matter signs have popped up nearly everywhere. In June this slogan, or judiciously crafted approximations of it, began flooding my email...

To read Isabel Wilkerson is to revel in the pleasure of reading — to relax into the virtuosic performance of thought and form one is about to encounter, safe and secure that the structures will not collapse beneath you. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's first book, The Warmth of Other...

$8000 for each slave :francis: Search Results Featured snippet from the web On April 16, 1862, President Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. This law prohibited slavery in the District, forcing its 900-odd slaveholders to free their slaves, with the government...

I've seen many of you :cape: for Jane Crow Elliot :mjpls:

Reparations bill gets new attention amid BLM. Could other nations provide a blueprint? Tony Burroughs' great-great-great-great grandfather was freed from slavery in 1806 by a white woman from Pennsylvania. In her last will and testament, Margaret Hutton had specified that David Truman was to be...

The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate them? NASHVILLE — I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old South. If there are those who want...

These white kids are adults now...do you think they changed? If we started black American History in the 70s we would still deserve reparations. Look at the trauma our parents and grandparents had to go through. Simply existing in a white space can result in either a property(home) economic...

A Nigerian named Aaron Glee Jr :mjlol: Dude really is the Black Donald Trump

African American Reparation Bill Passes California Assembly SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A proposal to establish a task force to study and prepare recommendations for how to give reparations to African Americans passed the California Assembly on Thursday. The bill advanced with a 56-5 vote as...

What kinda fukk shyt is this :unimpressed: Muhfukkas all in the thread having a good time with it. Funny enough I don't see NONE of them speaking with that same energy and breh got millions to lose out on.... Over an "ADOS" man :martin: This bullshyt ass hashtag is officially exposed

THEIR BLOOD CRIES OUT The Tulsa Massacre and Destruction of Black Wall Street: The Case for Reparations and H.R. 40 Join us for the first in an urgent online forum series with leaders from around the country to address why the City of Tulsa must pay massacre victims reparations and Congress...

Garland Nixon from WPFW News Views discusses voter suppression (aka Vote Theft) with Greg Palast (The Best Democracy Money Can Buy). ‎WPFW - News Views: News Views - Friday, March 6, 2020 on Apple Podcasts A long interview but worth it. It's not just the GOP. He discusses how Dems suppress...

Discuss the podcast here Anyone have a link to any PPV specials? :leon:

You wanted to see shyt crumble now you mad over 600. Now you want the economy back. Fraud ass nikkas. ADOS ain't shyt. You wanted it to fail until it touch your pockets. I thought yall wanted to see it burn to the ground. Now yall agree with whites on helping the economy. I been hoodwinked. I...

*Spin-off set of ideas from different thread on ideal regionality of Black Americans(in US) But with Black Americans aka Ados being the heart, n soul, and really intrinsic to this country, how would the (theoretical) depature of BA, in mass, affect the U.S; not just economically, but socially?