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The Promise of Reparations

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

It is important that Black youth, the Reparations Generation, have the benefit of detailed proposals from adults with ideas on how they might become the architects of their own destinies. The popularizing phase of Reparations is near completion. We must take the movement further, by engaging the talents, skills and imaginations of the people, especially…

August 22, 2002 1 min read Free to read

It is important that Black youth, the Reparations Generation, have the benefit of detailed proposals from adults with ideas on how they might become the architects of their own destinies. The popularizing phase of Reparations is near completion. We must take the movement further, by engaging the talents, skills and imaginations of the people, especially the young.

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe and White Farmers: by Dr. A. Chika Onyeani, Guest Commentator

DC’s Measure 62: A Green Light for Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation
by Opio Lumumba Sokoni, J.D., Guest Commentator

A letter to our readers: Fight on, Sister McKinney… Afghan dope on U.S. streets… Don’t bet Black futures on the market… Rep. Clyburn bears witness to racist crime

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