The “Racial Equity Task Force” at the University of Virginia recently published a report in which it demands the creation of a reparations fund for the descendants of slaves that helped build the university’s first buildings. Georgetown University adopted a similar initiative in late 2019.
Duke University economist William Darity Jr. and his wife Kirsten Mullen have co-authored a report proposing $12 trillion in reparations for Americans whose ancestors were enslaved.
Namibia declined an offer from the German government Thursday to pay reparations for a colonial-era genocide, calling it unacceptably low.
Black Lives Matter activists stormed a Seattle neighborhood this week, harassing residents and demanding that they “get the f*** out.”
Demetria Hester, a Black Lives Matter leader arrested Monday during what Portland Police had declared a riot, has been released and will not face charges.
The Burlington City Council on Monday voted unanimously to launch a task force to study reparations for residents whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States.
Black Lives Matter activists in Chicago held a rally Monday evening to stand in solidarity with the dozens of individuals who were arrested after a night of mass looting and criminal activity, with one organizer brazenly defending looting as a form of reparations.
Democrats and the broader left should rebrand their “defund the police” slogan as “refund the communities,” said Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA).
Black Lives Matter protesters issued “social justice” and “black liberation” demands regarding “diversity” to a restaurant owner in Louisville, KY, including a directive for “donations” to organizations run by non-whites.
Democrats have circulated a draft of their proposed 2020 platform. In its present form, it would be the most left-wing platform in the history of U.S. presidential politics.
A “racial equity” task force commissioned by the city of Durham, North Carolina, issued a report Thursday recommending the creation of a reparations fund to address “systemic racism.”
Rapper T.I. called for $44 trillion to be paid out as “reparations” to all black descendants of slaves in the United State on Tuesday’s edition of “The Breakfast Club.”
“We’re gonna hunt every company down [that is] making money off of our pain,” declared actor and rapper Ice Cube on Wednesday in an interview on the nationally broadcast radio show “The Breakfast Club.”
Ice Cube, who has over one hundred soundtrack credits, 31 producer credits, and over 70 acting credits, called for “reparations” from Hollywood studios on Wednesday.
Senate Democrats are proposing a $350 billion measure designed specifically to “address systemic racism and historic underinvestment in communities of color,” via the Economic Justice Act, which they announced on Thursday.
Providence, Rhode Island, Mayor Jorge Elorza (D) on Wednesday signed an executive order to pursue a “reparations process” for African-Africans and indigenous people.
North Carolina’s Asheville City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to pass a repentant measure that formally apologizes to black residents and moves to issue reparations in the form of investments in certain areas of the community through the creation of the Community Reparations Commission.
One of the recommendations unveiled in the “Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force” proposal involves establishing a commission to examine the impact of slavery and Jim Crow with the end goal of recommending “remedies,” or reparations. The task force refers to the move as a “building block to begin to redress the harms committed against African Americans.”
The New York Times devoted its entire “Sunday Review” section this weekend to an economic manifesto that lays out a radical left-wing vision for redesigning the American economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
NFL legend and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker responded to the growing tensions across the country by appealing to the Bible, stressing the power of forgiveness and asking, “Why are we penalizing people for what their ancestors did?”
Lena Dunham has apologized for the white privilege that has enabled her to achieve Hollywood success at a young age, saying that from now on, she promises to “sit down” and “shut up, unless it’s to advocate for change for Black people.” The Girls star also pushed slavery reparations and defunding the police.
With Prop 209 repeal and demands for reparations, California Democrats are writing a new chapter in their party’s shameful history of racial discrimination against Asian Americans – all in the name of racial equality.
“Black people are being murdered and brutalized by police with near impunity,” claims the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on its website as part of a banner message soliciting donations.
The Lloyd’s of London corporate insurance marketplace and the Greene King pub chain will both pay reparation to the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community over historic links to slavery.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Friday the United States should celebrate Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., by enacting Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) legislation forming a commission to study proposals for issuing reparations.
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” BET Founder Robert Johnson defended his proposal for a $14.7 trillion reparations payout by the federal government.
The founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), Robert Johnson says the recent riots prove that the U.S. needs to “go big” with a “$14 trillion” expenditure for slavery reparations as a way to address racial inequality in America.
Chinese officials and state media responded with fury after Germany’s Bild, the most widely read newspaper in Europe, called on Beijing to pay over $160 billion in reparations to Germany for its losses due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg argued Thursday that U.S. taxpayers’ obligation to fund reparations for black Americans has grown over generations of “systemic racism,” just as the value of an investment grows with compound interest.
Students and professors at the University of Notre Dame held an event on Wednesday night to discuss the creation of a reparations fund for black and Native American communities.
Longshot 2020 Democrat candidate Deval Patrick endorsed developing a reparations program in announcing his “Equity Agenda for Black Americans” on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Alex Marlow called out Democrat presidential primary candidate Pete Buttigieg, who recently proposed “reparations” for illegal aliens.
Candace Owens said the Democrats proposing “reparations” for black Americans is an “obvious scam” meant for pandering ahead of an election cycle.
Speaking Monday to CBS This Morning, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson cast doubt over the feasibility of reparations for the descendants of slaves, calling the logistics “unworkable.”
A Pan-African Reparations Coalition in Europe spokesman has condemned the British voting public as being “poisoned” by “the toxins of white supremacy” following Boris Johnson’s election victory.
A majority of Virginians oppose creating a commission to study the feasibility of reparations, according to a poll released Friday.
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg expressed support for giving illegal immigrants reparations on Thursday, but he stopped short of making the same promise to African Americans.
Providing reparations to 11 to 22 million illegal aliens — as South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has said he supports — could potentially cost American taxpayers up to $2.2 trillion.
An Illinois town has approved a measure to fund a local reparations program with proceeds from the purchase of recreational marijuana.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Thursday delivered a speech at Clark Atlanta University and declared that is time to adopt Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) legislation on reparations.
