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Reparations and reparative justice

July 2024

  • A detail from Hew Locke’s 2-metre-tall collage depicts a line of wooden houses on a hill, with imagery of trees and greenery, stitched-together materials, and, in the background, what appears to be dollar bills and stamps relating to the rubber industry and slave debentures

    ‘A live issue’: Hew Locke’s new work referencing slavery displayed in London

    British-Guyanese sculptor’s collage to be unveiled at British Academy with British Museum show in October

June 2024

  • A graphic of an older black-and-white photo of three Black people with an illustration of green flowers overlayed

    How Black Americans have been cheated out of land ownership – and the movement to reverse this

    New book examines history of US land theft and why Black citizens’ futures should include restorative justice
  • three people sit in front with people standing behind them clapping

    Oklahoma supreme court dismisses lawsuit of Tulsa massacre survivors

    Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, the last two survivors of 1921 events, sought to make city pay restitution
  • José Maria Neves talking into a microphone in front of a green marble wall

    Rise of far right makes reparations debate tough, says Cape Verde president

    José Maria Neves says governments should still try to have such conversations and build solutions using diplomatic corridors

May 2024

  • A view from the classical portico of Codrington College, which was established on the sugar plantation formerly owned by the Church of England’s missionary arm.

    Beatings, brandings, suicides: life on plantations owned by Church of England missionary arm

    Documents from Lambeth Palace archives show how one of Justin Welby’s predecessors approved the purchase of enslaved people for the notorious Codrington sugar estate
  • Men and women stand in a line and smile, with one holding a book called Songs on Slavery and Emancipation

    California’s proposals to rectify past discrimination advance through senate

    Reparations and compensation bills, conceived in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, must now pass the state assembly
  • A moel ship is examined by people in a museum

    Manahahtáanung or Manhattan? Tribal representatives call for apology for Dutch settlement of New York

    As new exhibition opens in Amsterdam exploring the settlement of North America, original Manhattanites demand apology

April 2024

  • Mia Mottley

    Barbados leader halts £3m payout to UK MP for Drax Hall plantation

  • A joint UK-US military facility on Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands.

    Britain must develop a partnership of equals with Africa

  • Richard Drax standing outdoors on a sunny dayduring a two minute's silence

    Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation

  • The Haiti Revolution leader Toussaint L'Ouverture painted on the body of a tap-tap bus operating in Port-au-Prince.<br>BFE88N The Haiti Revolution leader Toussaint L'Ouverture painted on the body of a tap-tap bus operating in Port-au-Prince.

    France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’

  • Kemi Badenoch: ‘UK’s wealth isn’t from white privilege and colonialism’

  • ‘Our now-weary bodies have held on’: 109-year-old Tulsa massacre survivors get day in court

March 2024

  • People calling for slavery reparations protest outside the British high commission during a visit by Prince William and Catherine to Jamaica in 2022.

    Six in 10 in UK poll say descendants of enslaved people owed formal apology

    Survey finds varying support for apology from government, firms that profited from slavery, and royal family
  • close up of an older woman in a white blouse

    South Carolina woman posthumously wins settlement over Black ancestral land

    Josephine Wright caught national media attention for pushing back against developers trying to buy Hilton Head property
  • Church of England's links to transatlantic slavery<br>Undated handout photo of Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon and chairwoman of the oversight group for the investment fund set up to address the Church of England's links to transatlantic slavery. A £100 million investment fund set up to address the Church of England's links to transatlantic slavery is too small and slow, according to a new report which calls for a target of £1 billion. The funding programme was announced in January last year for investment, research and engagement to "address past wrongs". Issue date: Monday March 4, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story RELIGION Slavery. Photo credit should read: Rich Barr/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    ‘It’s not a lot when you consider the harm’: Why bishop is calling for £1bn in C of E reparations for slavery

    Bishop of Croydon Rosemarie Mallett is calling for the Church of England to atone for African chattel slavery

February 2024

  • Two mausoleums in a cemetery with a lectern set up beside them.

    ‘Stolen and disrespected’: museum inters 200-year-old remains of Black Philadelphians

  • People hold up a report in front of a blue backdrop

    California announces initial set of first-in-the-nation reparation bills

December 2023

  • People relaxing at Accra Beach, Rockley, Barbados.

    The Guardian view on the Caribbean: the island-shaped arguments about historical injustice

  • MEPs inside the European parliament in Strasbourg

    EU must face legacy of colonialism and support reparations, say MEPs

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