There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved people
The cost of slavery and its legacy of systemic racism to generations of Black Americans has been clear over the past year – ...
Should America Pay Slavery Reparations?
The history is complicated, but the overall principle is simple: Slavery helped the United States become a formidable ...
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Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards
The Center for Public Integrity’s landmark project, 40 Acres and a Lie has taken second place in the annual Philip Meyer ...
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Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion
In an email, spokesperson Kate Gilling said the Aleut Corp. “recognizes the significant historical trauma endured by the Attuan people during and after World War II” and that it was aware of Atux ...
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Paul M. Craig: On reparations
Reparations. For what? For whom? What does this word mean? At its basic level, Reparations means to make someone whole for ...
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Brazil apologizes for World War II persecution of Japanese immigrants
The reparation request was filed in 2015 by the Okinawa Kenjin of Brazil Association, which stated that after the outbreak of World War II, members of the Japanese community were mistreated and ...
Syria’s new rulers press Russia for reparations
Syria’s new government pressed Moscow about reparations in their first meeting with a Kremlin delegation since the downfall of staunch Russian ally Bashar al-Assad’s regime last month.
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Money Matters, an IMF Exhibit -- The Importance of Global Cooperation
Governments were forced to stop redeeming their currencies for gold, since they had to print so much paper money to pay for the war. The defeated countries had no gold to pay their reparations. Their ...