Reparations Daily (ish)
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A daily (ish) newsletter uplifting the latest reparations-related news from across the world. Subscribe below!
New York, United States
Joined October 2021
The average age of those killed in Buffalo was 62. This wasn’t just an attack on the Black community. It was an attack on our Black elders. #BuffaloMassacre
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It has been written, That life is but a cycle, From ashes to ashes, From dust to dust, What is broken, Can be repaired, Not only can we do this, We must, We must. It is much easier to love, It is much easier to love.
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“ A Texas woman?” That’s THEE Opal Lee — She walked 1,400 miles, at 89 yrs old, from Fort Worth to DC to campaign for Juneteenth to be recognized as a federal holiday
A Texas woman was driven off her land by a racist mob in 1939. More than eight decades later, she owns it again. https://t.co/0yrVYtNKbM
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Today, let us remember Martin Luther King as he TRULY was: A Black radical anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, revolutionary Christian internationalist who was deemed an enemy of the State and assassinated for his radical work. Just about everything else is a lie.
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“There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
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No way we let people die on the street, and we have the nerve to call ourselves the best country on earth. https://t.co/7xIB4ZZiRw
kuow.org
At least 253 unhoused people in King County have died, so far, in 2022. That's a record for the county. A vigil will be held for them this month in Seattle.
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Asheville Reparations commission calls for extension; awaits final decision in 'limbo' https://t.co/Tv00g63X7c
citizen-times.com
Reparations commission members are requesting an eight month extension to their two-year timeline, what would prolong the process until December 2024.
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Repairing the Whole: How #Reparations Can Address Physical and Mental Health https://t.co/l3V66VPgkR
@racialrepair @ReparationsIsh #mentalhealth
nonprofitquarterly.org
For reparations to repair, they must address economic inequality and heal the intergenerational effects of the trauma that racism has wrought.
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What will it take to decolonize and liberate the world?
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Big business benefited from slavery – let it pay reparations https://t.co/FxIeqpjmBf
theguardian.com
Letters: Readers reflect on the business of slavery and who should refund the unpaid wages from which enslavers profited so handsomely
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Hearing survivors of the 1937 genocide of 30,000 Haitians by Dominican Republic brings tears. @NPR thanks for this excellent 2017 piece. A must-read 80 Years On, Dominicans And Haitians Revisit Painful Memories Of Parsley Massacre : Parallels : NPR
npr.org
This week marks the anniversary of the 1937 massacre, in which Dominican soldiers targeted Haitians living near the Dominican-Haitian border. A team from NPR's Latino USA gathered survivors' memories.
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This country can't have repentance without reparations.
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We're HIRING! Hammer & Hope is hiring a MANAGING EDITOR. If you or someone you know seems like a good fit, click the link below to apply asap! @mvmtjournalism @WritersofColor
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"How do we build solidarity within a culture of individualism, punishment, and accumulation? Drawing connections and showing up is where we should start and return to again and again." Hammer and Hope Issue No. 2 out now at https://t.co/qoJaa4efIo.
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The front page of @dailytarheel, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill via @elmunc
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The color of your skin should not be a death sentence. #ReparationsNow
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nbcnews.com
A national security review by the Biden administration found that white supremacists represented one of the most “persistent and lethal threats” facing the homeland.
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Four months after he was shot in the head after ringing the doorbell at the wrong house to pick up his brothers, Ralph Yarl has begun his senior year in high school
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