Reparations

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December 10, 2013

Caribbean panel advancing battle for reparations

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A Caribbean commission is expanding the number of former colonial powers it says should provide some…
July 25, 2013

Caribbean countries seek slavery reparations from three Europen countries

MIAMI (AP) — Leaders of more than a dozen Caribbean countries are launching a united effort to seek compensation from…
June 6, 2013

British to pay Kenyans tortured during colonial rule

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The wrinkled faces of the elderly Kenyans who gathered in a downtown Nairobi hotel registered gratitude,…
October 2, 2012

Colonial sins return to haunt former world powers in Kenya

LONDON - It is a court case that could reverberate round the world: Three elderly Kenyans are suing the U.K.…
June 21, 2012

No money for forced sterilization victims in NC

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) - Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina forcibly sterilized about 7,600 people whom it deemed 'feeble-minded'…
July 20, 2011

How black farmers remain a Republican punching bag

OPINION - Michele Bachmann, like the GOP in general, has conveniently forgotten the USDA's history of racism as far as…
July 8, 2010

Earth to Rush Limbaugh: Barack Obama is no Black Panther

OPINION - Limbaugh recently claimed that President Obama has deliberately allowed unemployment to grow in the United States as 'payback'…
February 24, 2010

Limbaugh’s ‘reparations’ crowing hits a new, racist low

Once in a while, the dog-whistle messages from the far-right are enough to make one's ears bleed...
August 10, 2009

Innocent Texans spend decades in prison, await reparations

Texas leads the nation in DNA exonerations. According to The Innocence Project - a legal organization that handles these cases…
June 25, 2009

theGrio Reflects: The origins of “40 acres and a mule”

On the eve of Juneteenth, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution apologizing for slavery. The gesture sparked lots of debate