On June 19, 1865, the humid air over Galveston, Texas carried more than the smell of saltwater and summer heat. It carried rumors. For days,
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.
Civil Rights Reconstruction, Unfinished Context & Analysis Supporting the Above Film Editor’s Note — Reconstruction, Unfinished SeriesThis essay accompanies the above video and is part
SERIES ARTICLE 1 What Birthright Citizenship Was Originally Meant to Protect Understanding the original constitutional purpose of the 14th Amendment and the protection of freedmen
I. The King America Was Never Meant to See Most Americans know the dream.Almost none know the blueprint. Newly released government files show Dr. Martin
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 Tragedy at Ebenezer Creek” In December 1864, as Union General William T. Sherman’s troops marched through Georgia, thousands of newly freed Black men, women,
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”
When California State Senator Dr. Akilah Weber Pierson authored Senate Bill 518, she did more than pass a bill, she advanced a generational promise. In
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
Washington State’s reparations work began on the right foundation: lineage. When AR1870 work with Alliance partners to craft the language of the Charles Mitchell &