Black People Politics : Reparations mark new front for US colleges tied to slavery

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Reparations mark new front for US colleges tied to slavery

Reparations mark new front for US colleges tied to slavery

The promise of reparations to atone for historical ties to slavery has opened new territory in a reckoning at U.S. colleges, which until now have responded with monuments, building name changes and public apologies. Georgetown University and two theological seminaries have announced funding...

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...announced funding commitments to benefit descendants of the enslaved people who were sold or toiled to benefit the institutions.



CAROLYN THOMPSON
Associated Press

 

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Reparations is the love needed for black people to recover


Harvard research: Impact of poverty begins in the womb, but it doesn't have to

Harvard research: Impact of poverty begins in the womb, but it doesn't have to

Scientific evidence shows that the toxic stresses of poverty can affect the brains of babies in the womb — but also that they can be reversed with some radical shifts to our approach to prenatal care. It's the subject of a new mini-documentary from Yahoo News, "Baby Brain."

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The stresses of poverty essentially handicap a baby for life literally before birth, according to a massive and growing body of research from over the past decade, causing the brain to react in ways that lead to riskier behavior — and to a higher likelihood of bad health, poor grades, lower earnings and prison time...

Nurse-Family Partnership caregiver Lori Rogers, left, visits new mom Latreta Turner and her baby Aubrey in a scene from "Baby Brain," a new mini-doc from Yahoo News. (Photo: Yahoo News)

Beth Greenfield
Senior Editor
Yahoo News

 

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Reparations one way or another


$625,000 Settlement for Woman Whose Child Was Torn From Her Arms

$625,000 Settlement for Woman Whose Child Was Torn From Her Arms

NEW YORK -- The video quickly spread widely online: Security guards and police officers pry a baby boy from his mother's arms as she lies on the floor of a public benefits office in Brooklyn."They're hurting my son!" the mother, Jazmine Headley, can be heard crying as she struggles

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Nikita Stewart
The New York Times

 

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Again, Reparations, one way or another


A 29-year-old mayor is giving his city's poorest residents $500 a month. He thinks his policy could work on a national scale

A 29-year-old mayor is giving his city's poorest residents $500 a month. He thinks his policy could work on a national scale.

Mayor Michael Tubbs doesn't support a basic-income program that would replace poor people's existing benefits and is critical of Andrew Yang's plan.

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Business Insider

 

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The Case for Reparations


Black Americans Are Still Struggling to Survive Nineteenth Century Segregation Issues

Black Americans Are Still Struggling to Survive Nineteenth Century Segregation Issues

More than half of black people in the U.S. live in highly segregated areas.

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Christine Leibbrand
The National Interest

 

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Major Jewish Denomination Votes To Support Reparations For Slavery

Major Jewish Denomination Votes To Support Reparations For Slavery

The Union for Reform Judaism is calling for a study on reparations to redress the continuing effects of slavery and systemic racism against Black Americans.

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The US is grappling with its history of slavery. The blueprint for dealing with it? Some say Brown University

The US is grappling with its history of slavery. The blueprint for dealing with it? Some say Brown University

Experts say no country has paid money to descendants of Africans of the transatlantic slave trade. Instead, universities have taken the lead.

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...Instead, universities have taken the lead on what they call reparative justice. Georgetown University apologized to descendants of slaves who were sold to pay school debts and recently pledged to raise $400,000 a year for programs to help those descendants; in October, Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey announced a nearly $28 million plan, including scholarships to descendants of enslaved Africans.

Dorbrene O'Marde, chairman of the Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Commission, talks about how sugar mills were once key to the country's economy during a visit to Betty's Hope, a former plantation

Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY
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