[Newark 40 Acres and a Mule Fund]
Ras Baraka: “We need to empower our entrepreneurs of color so that they can compete at increasingly higher levels. The Newark 40 Acres and a Mule Fund will bring pride and prosperity to our city as a whole and to our Black and Latinx business community in particular.”
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Reconstruction
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Announces “40 Acres and a Mule” Economic Justice Plan
Do America’s Public Schools Owe Black People Reparations?
[Reparations for Education]
Education Week: “This process of reconciliation and Reparations is essential for understanding contemporary K-12 racial disparities, rebuilding trust, and restructuring an institution that still causes the subordination and undereducation of Black students.”
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Standing for Black Lives Against Domestic Police Terrorism
[Greenlining Institute ]
Gore-Mann: “In the 20th Century, freed Black Americans, who were domestic refugees fleeing state-funded terrorism in the great migration, were then alleged to have brought crime…and thus needed to be policed by Whites.”
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Pressley and Arroyo: Lawmakers must End Qualified Immunity for Police
[Ending Qualified Immunity]
Pressley\Arroyo: “Qualified immunity has repeatedly denied accountability for those abused at the hands of the law or recourse for the countless families robbed of their loved ones — ending the doctrine is an essential step toward ensuring justice.”
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Language of Voter Suppression Crucial in Purging Black Vote
[Voter Suppression]
Moss: “The language of vote suppression has played a crucial role since Emancipation placed the issue of suffrage, the suffrage of a newly emancipated people, at the forefront of public debate.”
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Jamaal Bowman: Congress Needs to Give Reparations, Start Third Reconstruction
[Jamaal Bowman\Reparations]
Bowman: “Begin the process of healing and reparations, repairing what we have harmed or allowed to continue to harm the country overall, but particularly Black and brown communities.”
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Militarized American Police and How They Got Their Weapons of War
[Police Militarization]
The weapons that come to local police departments through the 1033 pipeline are direct from the military and, by extension, the War on Terror.
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WNYC STUDIO’S “UNITED STATES OF ANXIETY” PODCAST ANNOUNCES SPECIAL UPCOMING 2020 ELECTION EPISODES STARTING TODAY
[WNYC\”United States of Anxiety]
The United States of Anxiety will revisit…history, ask how relevant it is to the current election, and trace today’s political and cultural divides back to the Reconstruction era…The new season debuts today with a remarkable story of Black landowners from Quitman County, Mississippi.
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