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'Reparations call continues Malcolm's legacy'
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The 79th birth anniversary of Malcolm X was celebrated May 19 at the Center for Inner City Studies of Northeastern Illinois University with accolades and admonishments to continue the liberation struggle in the tradition of integrity and discipline demonstrated by the late leader.
"There are two major Malcolm generations, his contemporaries and the young people who personally heard him and the Malcolm movie generation," Kofi Taharka told an audience that filled the center's auditorium,...
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Reparations: Check, Restoration or Apology
Washington Informer
; Wells, Mary Washington Informer 06-30-2004 "This reparations movement is not about a check," said Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), president of Third World Press of Chicago, last Friday at the Gala Reparations Banquet for the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA), which was
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Doherty: `My people not going to pay reparations'
Chicago Defender
; Doherty: `My people not going to pay reparations' The lone Republican in the City Council who voted against reparations for Blacks, Ald. Brian Doherty (41st) Wednesday said his people weren't around for slavery and are not about to pay for restitution. "How can you make a direct relationship to
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REPARATIONS Rally Planned
Chicago Defender
; The intellectual and political underpinnings of the Reparations cause are expected to gain international attention as a result of a late summer rally and forum planned for the nation's capital. Dr. Conrad Worrill, historian and chairman of the National Black United Front (NBUF), and State Sen.
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Davis holds Reparations townhall meeting Saturday
Chicago Defender
; Davis holds Reparations townhall meeting Saturday U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-7th) is holding a townhall meeting on Reparations Saturday at the historic Quinn Chapel AME Church, 2401 S. Wabash Ave., where he hopes the discussion will help educate Blacks and whites about the "atrocities" of the
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All roads lead to reparations
Chicago Defender
; All roads lead to Reparations Chicago Defender Publisher Col. Eugene Scott addressed the restitution and reparations issues last Friday at an Editorial Board meeting, noting that for the 11th consecutive year, U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) called for congressional action on behalf of victims of
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CAUCASIANS UNITE IN SUPPORT OF REPARATIONS
New York Beacon, The
; Likely for the first time in U.S. history, a group of white supporters of reparations to descendants of enslaved Africans traveled from across the country to meet each other and to strategize about how we can best be of service to the reparations movement. We met in Atlanta Georgia from Friday,
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Reparations is a hot topic, but no dollars in sight.
The Washington Times
; Several hundred blacks will gather in Washington this weekend to plot strategy for reparations, a hot topic among some black activists. They want the government to pay them for injuries they say they suffer as a legacy of slavery, which ended 135 years ago. After the wrangling since then over
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Reparations for the children of slaves: Litigating the issues*
The University of Memphis Law Review
; Reparations presents one of the most controversial issues facing race relations in America today. It is controversial, in part, because it involves something more than the usual attempt to resist the roll-back of civil rights gains of the 1950s and 1960s. Instead, reparations requires an active,
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Group to join reparations rally in Washington
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Group to join reparations rally in Washington Descendants of slaves seek repayment By JAMAAL ABDUL-ALIM of the Journal Sentinel staff Tuesday, August 13, 2002 Centuries have passed since Africans first set foot on North America's shores and into horrific lives of bondage after surviving brutal
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United front required to win reparations
Michigan Citizen
; Reparations to repair the physical, cultural, psychological and spiritual damages done to Africans in America during the holocaust of enslavement is an idea whose time has come. Momentum is building, and though the struggle will still be long and difficult, the prospect of victory is at least now
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