Reparations Tag

What Black New Yorkers Say They’re Owed: Highlights From a State Reparations Hearing

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on May 31, 2026 72 Comments

"It shouldn't only be a check, but it should start with a check. Then we can start addressing education issues, redlining issues, policing issues. ...

“Cut the Check”: Reparations Protesters Surround Steyer

Posted by Ben Smith on May 23, 2026 15 Comments

"What is your position on reparations, Tom Steyer? In 2020 who said no one thought about cutting a check? What is your position on reparations, Tom Steyer?”...

Chicago Mayor Johnson Pushes for Reparations, Claims Restaurant Industry Tied to Slavery

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 18, 2026 35 Comments

"You just watched the entire city council, in transparency, try to take wages away from the very people who are part of an industry that has its ties to slavery is hiding from that"...

Baltimore Reparations Fund Plagued by Infighting and Struggles for Control

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 10, 2026 47 Comments

"The City Hall says the mayor has final say, while commissioners maintain the body was created to independently manage the funds"...

Former SJU Prof Targeted for Opposing Reparations Settles Lawsuit With Some Defendants

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 08, 2026 2 Comments

"Manco alleges the university and the surviving defendants engaged in defamation, retaliation, and false light, a charge similar to defamation."...

Dem Rep Calls for Reparations for Illegal Aliens ‘Traumatized’ By ICE

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on March 29, 2026 40 Comments

"Because, at the end of the day, the people that have been inflicting this harm need to be prosecuted."...

U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign Students Want School to Spend $25K on Reparations Commission

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 01, 2026 4 Comments

“both just and necessary”...

San Francisco Being Sued Over Controversial Reparations Fund

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 15, 2026 24 Comments

"Acknowledging past injustice does not give the government license to spend public resources on programs that sort people by race and ancestry today"...

No One Wants To Fund San Fran’s Reparations Program

Posted by Matt Lamb on February 06, 2026 41 Comments

San Francisco's potentially expensive reparations program has not excited any donors yet....

U. Illinois Hosted State-Funded Committee Meeting Where Professors Advocated for Reparations

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 05, 2026 8 Comments

"They shared with White workers labor exploitation. That is the hallmark of capitalism: theft."...

San Francisco Mayor Signs Reparations Bill, Admits There’s No Money to Pay Them

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 02, 2026 47 Comments

“We are not allocating money to this fund — with a historic $1 billion budget deficit, we are going to spend our money on making the city safer and cleaner”...

Reparations Champion Roger Williams University Now Furloughing Most Staff

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 20, 2025 6 Comments

"Furloughs carry real impacts for individuals and families, and I recognize the hardship that this temporary measure brings"...

https://twitter.com/CaltransD4/status/1722765175789699438

Newsom Signs Law Authorizing “Reparations” for Black People

Posted by Timothy R. Snowball on October 14, 2025 56 Comments

The "descendants of slavery" designation operating as a legal proxy for race is the entire point of the legislation....

House Democrat Launching Resolution for U.S. to Spend ‘Trillions’ on Reparations

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 16, 2025 101 Comments

“For over 400 years, this country has profited off the stolen labor, the stolen land and stolen lives of Black people”...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek_7GaCtdNs

Ayanna Pressley Leads Push For Reparations Commission Amid DOGE’s Cuts to Wasteful Spending

Posted by Stacey Matthews on February 14, 2025 60 Comments

"What we’re seeing from the Trump administration and their allies in Congress and the courts is a coordinated, years-long effort to dismantle any policy that uplifts black folks and addresses America’s shameful history of systemic racism. It is anti-blackness on steroids...

Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Has Received Reparations Payments From Her White Friends

Posted by Mike LaChance on October 25, 2024 13 Comments

"has taken radical positions, most recently becoming heavily involved in the anti-Israel movement"...

California Reparations Supporters Threaten Newsom: Sign the Bill or We Won’t Vote for Kamala

Posted by Elizabeth Stauffer on September 01, 2024 82 Comments

"This is going to have a direct impact on your friend, Kamala Harris, who is running for president."...

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