By Joshua Nelson A day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters he is against making reparations to the descendants of slaves, an award-winning author called out the top Republican during a House hearing on such compensation. Some in the hearing Wednesday booed when another writer, also black, opposed reparations. “For a century after…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A student group demanded reparations for slavery and the creation of an African american studies department in an article published in early June and first reported Monday. Reparations at UChicago Working Group, a student group at the University of Chicago, made these demands and others in a…
by Kody Fairfield On Tuesday, a group of United Nations (UN) experts told the United States that the nation owed black citizens reparations for not yet having confronted its “racial terrorism.” The UN working group on people of African descent warned that the black people in the US were facing a “human rights crisis.” Their…
A professor is Baltimore wants all white people to know they cannot truly be allies of black Americans or advocate for black rights. Basically, the only real way to be an ally to black people is for white people to give their money to them– after all, white people didn’t earn it. From Louder With…