Category : News Talk

40 survivors of wartime sexual violence receive reparations – Ukrainian gender policy commissioner

40 survivors who suffered sexual abuse during the war have received compensation. Stock photo: Pexels The first 40 survivors of sexual violence during the full-scale war have received monetary compensation in a pilot project for urgent reparation...

Barack Obama vs. Bayard Rustin on affirmative action, reparations and Israel

“Rustin” is a Netflix biopic produced by Barack and Michelle Obama. Bayard Rustin, the underappreciated black 1960s civil rights activist, certainly deserves an ambitious film about his life. After all, the 1963 “March on Washington” that culminated...

My Next Read: “The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening” by Jennifer Lynn Stoever

The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to beli...

California’s Slow Progress on Reparations Highlights Need for Deeper Understanding

Almost one year ago, the California Reparations Task Force, the first statewide body to study reparations for Black people, released a landmark report with 115 policy recommendations to address disparities in health and healthcare, education and hous...

On eve of Juneteenth, Newcastle mayor disparages reparations and pride

During a debate over whether the city of Newcastle would fly the pride flag in June, Mayor Robert Clark on Tuesday delivered a wide-ranging diatribe about the city’s LGBTQ+ community and reparations for Black Americans harmed by racist national poli...

Pistons Offseason is Marked by Changes at the Top

It’s been an interesting month for the Detroit Pistons. On May 31, the team announced the hiring of Trajan Langdon as its new President of Basketball Operations. It was a position that the team announced they were bringing back at the end of the fran...

Reparations how? Mayor Johnson’s task force is beside the point on what’s needed to fix Chicago

For the past 250 years, the question of granting reparations to Black Americans for the racial injustices they’ve suffered has been one of the nation’s most complex — and polarizing — issues. The Quakers gave up trading and owning enslaved Black peo...