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Category: Truth and Reconciliation
Kerwin Webb: Equal Justice Initiative Historical Marker in Eatontown, January 29, 2020
On Wednesday, January 29, 6:30-8:30 PM at the award-winning program “Let’s Talk About Race” at the Red Bank Public Library, 84 W. Front St., Red Bank, Kerwin Webb of the Greater Red Bank NAACP will present a program on efforts by…
Read MoreThe Collective Healing That is Owed
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield, a senior editor at YES! Magazine, provides a comprehensive review of attempts made to receive reparations since emancipation as well as describing current efforts. “No longer about a one-time payout to Black folks, reparations today are about…
Read More‘No Longer Forgotten’: Ohio Students Have Headstone Made for Black Settlers
“A group of eighth graders found two unmarked cemetery plots where black inhabitants were buried. They placed a plaque on the graves this week to remember the families. . . . They did not know the families interred. Nor were…
Read MoreSeminaries Start Slavery Reparation Funds Amid Calls For National Program
On NPR’s Morning Edition (October 28, 2019), Tom Gjelton reports on the reparations funds created by Princeton Theological Seminary and Virginia Theological Seminary “as a confession of past sins” in their ties to slavery. But William Darity, professor of public…
Read MoreVirginia seminary sets aside $1.7 millionto pay reparations to descendants of slaves
Virginia Theological Seminary, an Episcopal seminary, says it has set aside $1.7 million to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves who worked on its campus, making it the first institution of its kind to set up a reparations fund. …
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