YES! co-founder Sarah van Gelder reflects on her conversations with the late Rev. Desmond Tutu, who spoke with YES! for our 2015 “Make It Right” issue.
Reparations
The first of its kind, the nine-member task force will study and develop reparations proposals in order to start repairing the harm done to African American families and communities by U.S. policies.
Reparations, debt cancellation, and climate justice are all regular features in climate solutions—but what do they mean in practice?
How to decolonize wealth through reparations.
Until federal reparations happen, local organizations across the country are stepping up.
Unequal schools are one of many manifestations of systemic racism. Changing the way schools are financed and homeowners are taxed can be a vehicle for reparations.
Slavery was the ultimate labor distortion. A crucial part in the discussion on reparations today should center on reshaping the labor relationship between employers and employees.
Addressing histories of mass violence have to include both material reparations and public and visible symbolic gestures.
Observances and paid holidays alone can’t fix the problems caused by White supremacy.
Transferring wealth to Black-led groups is a particularly potent form of reparations with immediate benefits to communities of color.
Slavery is the usual argument for reparations. But there’s another reason.
Truth commissions and reparations programs can effectively involve all perspectives in a conflict about longstanding political and economic grievances.
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