Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
Reparations in the Time of Corona: Why they’re even more relevant now (Personal Reparations 5)
The rate of Black land loss doesn’t decrease during a national disaster. In that respect, our legal team came together just in time. The lawyer I called “Liz” in my…
Read MorePersonal Reparations 3: Heirs Property, “Safe” Words, and ‘Slave Play’
Spoiler alert: This essay details the last scene of “Slave Play.” Part 1 and Part 2 of this story can be found by clicking these links. “Understand…” seventy-four-year-old Andrew Quarterman…
Read MorePersonal Reparations 2: Black Wealth, White Saviorism, and H.R. 40
For Part 1 of this story, click here. Last week I caught a red eye to Hilton Head, spent a day recovering, and then my mother, step-father and I drove…
Read MorePersonal Reparations
When reparations discussions began to make big news, I didn’t need to understand what, exactly, was being proposed — money, acknowledgements, land, legislation — in order to know in my…
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