Reparations or Truth and Reconciliation?

Greensboro, NC Truth and Community Reconciliation Project

The Wilmington Race Riot Commission.

N'COBRA

Illinois Slavery Era Insurance Policies Registry.

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record.

Try your hand on the Underground Railroad.

August 25, 2004

Records shed light on grim slave lives: Poignant insurance data on Internet.
You'll have to log in to the Chicago Tribune's site. Annoying but worth it.

July 20, 2004

Namibia tribe marks genocide, demands reparations.

June 7, 2004

Justices Allow Suit Against Austria on Art Seized by Nazis. "The Supreme Court ruled today that United States courts have jurisdiction to hear lawsuits involving art and other property stolen by the Nazis nearly seven decades ago, a decision that some justices said could affect American diplomacy."

June 6, 2004

South African Blacks to get Land Stolen during Apartheid. "Thousands of Black South Africans will soon be able to buy back land taken from them during the apartheid era. Landless Blacks are allowed to claim White-owned farmland. If White farmers refuse to sell, a new law lets the government step in and forcibly buy the land at market price."

June 4, 2004

A tangled web: Brown University’s study of its own participation in slavery could spread discomfort far and wide, BY BRIAN C. JONES, Boston Phoenix.

Fort Worth joins Dallas, passes slavery reparations resolution. By FinalCall.com.

State asked to mark holiday. Bill stalled in Senate meant to celebrate Juneteenth, the date last slaves learned of freedom. By ERIN DUGGAN, Capitol bureau, Times Union. "July 4 may be America's Independence Day, but for many descendents of people who were slaves in 1776, the true day of freedom is June 19 -- or Juneteenth."