A leading reparations activist says there is merit in pursuing a variety of legal strategies that might convince U.S. courts that Black people deserve damages for past treatment in the United States. However, Kamm Howard, of the legislative commission of NCOBRA, the national Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, doesn’t believe there is anything “novel” about the proposal by Dr. Jahi Issa and Reggie Mabry, that reparations activists recognize that slavery was legal in the U.S., and adjust their legal strategy, according. “Slavery was never legal under international norms,” said Howard. “Only a small number of nations in Europe colluded together and created some rules among themselves on how to engage in these international crimes. Those were rules amongst criminals.”
This week you wrote back about Hollywood imperial propaganda and the firing of John Bolton. We share your comments on “
This book offers lessons for people interested in organizing around health status, for building health systems.
Transnational black solidarity has been a central component of African American roots tourism in Brazil, even as international tourism also allows for the enactment of first-world subjectivities.…
The history of liberated Angola, like the history of the world, cannot be told by humanity’s oppressors.
The U.S. has gone extra miles to support French military efforts to protect uranium mining in Niger.
