LANSING — A Lansing church made good on a commitment to raise money as financial amends for the Black community as “repentance, reconciliation and reparations” on Sunday. The First Presbyterian Church of Lansing gathered about $80,000 in donations, with another $20,000 coming from a church capital fund, and presented a check to the Justice League […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s Legislative Black Caucus released a slate of reparations bills to implement ideas from the state’s landmark task force on the issue. The proposals include potential compensation for property seized from Black owners, but do not call for widespread direct cash payments to descendants of enslaved Black people. If approved, the […]
Good morning and welcome to the A.M. Alert! REPARATIONS PACKAGE COMES TO SACRAMENTO The California Legislative Black Caucus on Wednesday unveiled a legislative package intended to implement reparations for Black Californians who were harmed by racist laws and policies in the state. The package includes a resolution to formally recognize and accept responsibility “for all […]
The Biden administration on Jan. 19 announced that nearly $5 billion in student loan debt would be wiped out for more than 70,000 borrowers, many of them teachers, social workers and others who qualify for income-driven repayment plans. But a day earlier, 67 organizations, including the NAACP, penned a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona […]
State-sanctioned slavery existed in what became the United States for 246 years. Ten of the nation’s first 12 presidents enslaved Black people, including one who engaged in slave trading from the Oval Office. Enslaved people — both in the North and the South — helped build our nation and were a foundation of the 18th […]
A handful of children wearing dress pants and white shirts rose from wooden pews. They faced the crowd inside Jamison Memorial Temple as their voices rose to the notes of “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The Civil War anthem — sung by Union soldiers and Black congregants alike — was penned by abolitionist Julia Ward […]
For the first time, this year advocates seeking reparations for the harms inflicted on Black people during centuries of slavery in America saw a movement for redress that elicits hope. Many municipalities either started or are forming commissions to address compensation to the descendants of enslaved Africans. California has made the most zealous effort. The […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations to address the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday. The bill signing comes at a time when many states and towns throughout the United States attempt […]