Washington State launched a historic reparations study. But newly surfaced internal emails raise deep questions The Charles Mitchell & George Washington Bush Reparations Study was
For 37 years, the same sentence has been placed at the top of federal reparation bill H.R. 40. The same sentence.The same mistake.The same outcome:
Washington State has taken a historic step by authorizing the Charles Mitchell and George Washington Bush Study on Reparative Action, a study designed to examine
Washington State made history by funding the Charles Mitchell and George Washington Bush Study on Reparative Action—a legislatively mandated examination of the harms of U.S.
Detroit had an opportunity to lead.Instead, it delivered a catastrophic misstep, one that transforms a lineage-based justice initiative into a global, unfocused, legally indefensible diversity
The news from the AU is impossible to ignore: at its 38th Summit and through new slides, the African Union has declared 2025 the “Year
I. A Viral Anthem Meets a Cultural Crossroad Houston rapper Monaleo didn’t just drop a single — she detonated a cultural moment.Her track “Sexy Soulaan”
Sacramento, October 2025. In a move the reparations community sees as deeply contradictory, California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed multiple bills offering direct, material relief
A War With the Diaspora The fight for reparations is no longer just against white resistance—it’s a war inside Black America itself. On one side
Reparations Is a Specific Debt, Not a Broad Gesture Reparations is not an abstract ideal. It is not about symbolic gestures or pan-racial solidarity. It
This is what happens when policymakers confuse reparations with race-based aid. Washington’s Covenant Homeownership Program, hailed by some as “racial equity in action,” is already
When a reparations task force blends descendants with anyone of the same skin tone, it is not advancing justice—it is building a program designed to
Evanston, Illinois, made history as the first U.S. city to launch a reparations program. Grants of $25,000 were offered to Black residents who lived in
AR1870 exists for one reason: to defend the interests of Descendants of U.S. Chattel Slavery. And we are clear-eyed about what our community’s number one