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What is reparations? What should it look like? How has slavery and subsequent systems of oppression had a continuing impact on Black Americans?

Will the United States ever pay reparations for its role in what amounts to domestic terrorism against African Americans?

The truth is: The government has already paid reparations — to slave owners.

According to the National Archives and Records Administration, The District of Columbia Emancipation Act paved the way to compensate slave owners for their “loyalty to the Union” and for the loss of income incurred by freeing slaves.

Source: Did You Know: US Gov’t Paid Reparations…To Slave Owners | News One

The slave trade in post-Gaddafi Libya has recently expanded. Today, people are selling other human beings out in the open.

Source: We “Liberated” Libya from an “Evil” Dictator. Now It’s Openly Trading Slaves

Abused men have faced widespread biases from police, judges and social workers.

Source: When wives beat their husbands, no one wants to believe it – Los Angeles Times

These hidden figures deserve to be celebrated.

Source: 21 African Americans you don’t know but should

The religious weapon keeps totalitarian regimes in power, and together they keep the majority of the people in the world poor and ignorant.

Source: Religion, the Oldest Weapon of Mass Destruction in Human History

The ‘Seaside Scavenge’ is revolutionising beach cleaning.

Source: This Market Uses Trash Instead Of Cash | 1 Million Women

Source: Research Shows Entire Black Communities Suffer Trauma After Police Shootings by Tasha Williams — YES! Magazine

Anne C. Bailey writes about race, slavery, refugees, African American, Caribbean and African Studies, human rights, history and memory.

Source: Gullah Geechee community finally credited with song “Kumbaya” – Baileyblog