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Reparations
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The Case for Reparations:  A Human Rights Approach

 

December 8, 2019

Spartanburg, SC

Hosted by:  Ubuntu Institute for Community Development

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United Nations and Reparations

 

Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law.

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The Case for Reparations

 

The Case for Reparations (click)

Story by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic magazine)

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JUNE 19, 2019 | HEARING ON SLAVERY REPARATIONS

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Danny Glover Make Case for Slavery Reparations (click)

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover deliver opening statements at a Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on slavery reparations. Mr. Coates also criticizes recent comments by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell opposing reparations.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Lead Sponsor, HR-40:  https://jacksonlee.house.gov/about
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Dr. Ron Daniels, President, Institute of the Black World 21st Century, Convener, National African American Reparations Commission:  
https://ibw21.org/author/dr-ron-daniels/
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Jeffrey Robinson, Deputy Legal Director and Director of the ACLU’s Trone Center for Justice and Equality:  
https://www.aclu.org/reparations
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The Who We Are Project:  
https://thewhoweareproject.org
 

Kamm Howard, National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America:  https://www.ncobraonline.org

TO LEARN MORE

Nkechi Taifa, Civil Rights/Human Rights Attorney, President, The Taifa Group Consulting:  
https://www.thetaifagroup.com/our-team
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Nana Dr. Patricia Newton, CEO, Black Psychiatrists of America:  https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/144419540/patricianewtonbioforsummitnotice-4.pdf
 

Dr. Ade Ofunnuyi, Founder and Director of theGullah Society,
https://www.thegullahsociety.com

 
Lester Young, JustleadershipUSA, Inc.,
https://jlusa.org/
 
Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor/President, of the West Indies and Chairman, CAICOM Reparations Commission:  

https://www.uwi.edu/VCBiography.asp
 
A Historical Timeline of Reparations, 

https://guides.library.umass.edu/reparations
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