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  • Close-up image of U.S. $100 bills.

    Economist Finds Cost of Racial Bias to Be $16 Trillion in Losses

    Citigroup global economist Dana Peterson, a Black woman, researched “how gaps between Black and white Americans eat into economic output.”
    Shani Saxon Oct 23, 2020 12:00PM EDT
    Three Black people hold a large protest sign that reads "Reparations By Any Means!"

    California Creates Task Force to Explore Paying Reparations for Slavery

    The landmark racial justice legislation is “proving a paradigm that we hope will be resonant all across the United States,” said California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.
    Shani Saxon Oct 2, 2020 11:03AM EDT
    Tulsa. Black and white archival image of a burned down city of destroyed buildings and trees.

    Black Tulsa Residents Sue the City 99 Years After the 1921 Race Massacre

    The lawsuit reads: “Defendants exacerbated the damage and suffering of the Greenwood residents.”
    N. Jamiyla Chisholm Sep 3, 2020 4:30PM EDT
    A Black woman with a read and green headwrap and a blue demin shirt is posing in the Rosie the Riveter stance.

    Truth and Redistribution

    How to fix the racial wealth gap, end plutocracy, and build Black power.
    Naomi Zewde Sep 3, 2020 3:00PM EDT
    A figurine of a man in a suit stands in front of a backdrop of a house.

    The Great White Heist (The Other Reason For Reparations)

    Slavery is the usual argument for reparations. But there’s another rationale.
    Michael Harriot Aug 26, 2020 10:45AM EDT
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    Illinois City Tags Marijuana as Source for Funding Reparations

    Evanston, Illinois, creates a potential model for the rest of the country by bridging the wealth gap using tax revenue from newly legalized marijuana sales.
    Shani Saxon Jul 21, 2020 12:30PM EDT
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