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#reparations

A former Black Lives Matter activist has blasted San Francisco's "unrealistic" reparations plan, saying it's a way to "gaslight" black Americans - and accused lawmakers of being "more focused on slavery" than the homelessness plaguing the city.Xaviaer DuRousseau, a one-time BLM supporter who now works for PragerU, an advocacy group that creates videos that promote conservative ideas, said Tuesday that the costly handouts perpetuate "fraudulent narratives surrounding systemic racism."

Activists and historians have helped to keep the memory of German colonialism alive over the past 100 years.Their debates about restitution and reparations for colonial injustices have put the issue onto the political agenda in countries such as Namibia. .Tanzania, once part of German East Africa and the scene of colonial-era atrocities, had been relatively quiet until now.

"Germany's response is astonishing to us in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as for the Polish state.The German government cannot answer a question that was never posed.Neither negotiations nor conciliatory discussions took place."That's what Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk had to say about Germany's newest refusal to pay Poland reparations for World War II.

Germany has rebuffed the latest push by Poland's nationalist government for vast reparations over the second world war, saying in response to a diplomatic note that the issue was closed, according to the foreign ministry in Warsaw.Poland estimates its losses in the second world war caused by Germany at 6.2tn zotys (1.2tn) and has demanded reparations, but Berlin has repeatedly said all financial claims related to the war have been settled.

OTTAWA Canada said on Saturday that it had agreed to pay 2.8 billion Canadian dollars, about $2 billion, to settle the latest in a series of lawsuits seeking reparations for the harm done to Indigenous people through a system of mandatory residential schools that a national commission called cultural genocide.

At the task force meetings over the last two years, non-Black audience members have been rare, but Brown argues that non-Black Californians should be paying attention.According to the 2020 census, Black residents make up less than 6% of the state's population.If the task force's expansive proposals are to become law after they arrive in the Legislature, they will require broad-based support from California residents across racial groups.

If I could answer that, I'd be a rich man.I would hope they want to educate themselves and understand how we got here as a state and how we got here as a nation and the impact that slavery has had and continues to have on this county.What's the legislative timeline here?How long might this all take and what's the earliest we might see legislation from the report put into practice?

The Cuban government was responsible for the death in 2012 of a prominent political activist who had organized a movement that had sought to compel the government to allow more freedom, according to a report released on Monday by an international human rights agency.The activist, Oswaldo Paya, was killed in a suspicious car crash in eastern Cuba that his family and supporters always believed had been caused by the government.

The Southeast Community Center on Evans Avenue is a sprawling building on San Francisco's east side.It's right on the border of Mission Bay, Dogpatch, Hunter's Point, and the Bayview and opened in October 2022 with the intent to bring dynamism and accessibility to the area; there are swinging chairs, grilling stations, and slides where kids can play.

Left-wing activists are jealous of the Holocaust and want to replace it with slavery, a leading historian has said.In a speech to the National Conservatism conference in London, David Starkey claimed that groups such as Black Lives Matter were attempting to destroy white culture and do exactly what was done to German culture because of Nazism and the Holocaust.

The prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines said having King Charles III as head of state is an absurdity.Ralph Gonsalves said he wanted to see the Caribbean country severed from the British monarchy within his lifetime, adding he would welcome an apology from the UK state for past injustices relating to slavery.

Illustration by Liam Eisenberg.Biography was once the elegant matriarch of nonfiction.Smelling faintly of lavender, she clutched her pearls when the story got too personal, or the author intruded on the narrative to address the reader, or the political machinery showed through the corseted layers of her heaving bodice.

The French government is to pay reparations to thousands more Algerians and their families held in internment camps in France after the north African country's war of independence.Acting on a report by an independent commission, the government agreed to increase the number of Harkis and their relatives eligible to claim compensation for being forced to live in deplorable and squalid living conditions several decades ago.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails "I came back to life.Like other victims of child abuse by priests, 52-year-old Stephane said getting an official recognition from France's Catholic Church of what happened is helping him get better, at last.

People listen to the California reparations task force, a nine-member committee studying restitution proposals for African Americans, at a meeting Saturday at Mills College in Oakland.The panel voted on recommendations for how the state may compensate and apologize to Black Californians for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies.

California's Reparations Task Force Committee is exploring a proposal to increase funding for Black students in public schools, a significant new conduit for reparations.During the panel's meetings in Sacramento earlier this month - and nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom tasked the panel with developing recommendations for Black residents affected by the legacy of slavery - the task force heard a presentation on how reparations could be leveraged to bolster school funding.

Walter Foster, 80, of Los Angeles, raises a sign calling for a focus on financial compensation as the California Reparations Task Force takes public comment in Los Angeles in September.Los Angeles Times via TNS
Residents of Sacramento and visitors from nearby regions have an opportunity Friday and Saturday to join the conversation regarding reparations in California.

Passionate voices filled Sacramento's Byron Sher Auditorium on Friday during an intense discussion over whether Black Americans who have been historically disenfranchised should receive reparations from the state.Among the more than 100 people who turned out for California's Reparations Task Force meeting was Gloria Pierrot-Dyer.

California's Reparations Task Force recently concluded its two-day public meeting geared toward compensating Black Americans affected by the legacy of slavery.But the nine-member body is a long way from the finish line.The panel has until July 1 to submit its final report to the Legislature.In the meantime, it is focused on gathering feedback and working out the report's moving parts.

King Charles has been urged to go further towards offering reparatory justice for the UK's role in transatlantic slavery, even as he was praised for reportedly ignoring Boris Johnson's advice to avoid the issue at all costs.Academics and campaigners called on Charles to adopt specific measures to help build an understanding of the legacy of the enslavement of black people, as well as putting forward suggestions for how the UK could work towards making amends.

The Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, has called for a national debate over Britain's role in the slave trade, after the coronation reignited questions over the monarchy's historical links.He said he wanted a more open-minded approach to dealing with questions over the UK's role in enslaving Africans, praising the path taken by the New Zealand government, which has offered an apology and more than $150m in reparations to Indigenous communities for past mistreatment.

The Ancona family was the last to leave Russell City, an unincorporated town outside of Hayward annexed to the city in 1968, after its 1,400 majority Black and Latinx residents were forced to leave the year earlier.But Lita Ancona didn't plan to let the city's bulldozers tear down her home.So, before she left, she burned it to the ground.

The prime minister of an eastern Caribbean country has claimed it is not totally free while the King is its head of state.St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Terrance Drew told the BBC a public consultation on whether the Commonwealth realm nation should become a republic will start during his leadership.

Like many terrible ideas, this one probably began with the best of intentions.As part of the coronation Saturday of King Charles III, British citizens have been encouraged by Buckingham Palace to recite a wonky kind of pledge of allegiance: "I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors, according to law.

Malachi Hayes, Chrystal O'Keefe, Melissa Sage-Bollenbach, Adrian Serrano and Brett Ballantini took on the daunting task of immediately improving the White Sox by taking over the team on Friday night.We discussed changes major and minor, then predicted the next weird thing that will happen with the club.

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, authorised by Nelson Mandela and chaired by Desmond Tutu after the end of apartheid, began with the victims of gross human rights violations giving statements about their experiences.It began with everyone, including the families of perpetrators, listening to these statements.

A one-time payment of $5 million to each eligible Black resident is among recommendations unanimously accepted by San Francisco's Board of Supervisors as part of a draft plan by a panel proposing reparations.The move Tuesday was an intermediate step, with a final report that includes board feedback due in June, the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee said, and the board set to meet again on the issue in September.

San Francisco leaders will weigh a plan that could pay $5 million for every black citizen.AP
San Francisco politicians will meet Tuesday to publicly consider a reparations package that would pay $5 million lump-sum payments to its eligible black residents.The city's Board of Supervisors will weigh the draft plan, which recommends eliminating personal debt and tax burdens and doling out guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years to an undetermined number of black citizens in addition to the hefty check.

Local "He always wants to give credit to others and not accept credit himself, which he so richly deserves."MERCED, Calif.(AP) - A courthouse in California's agricultural heartland was named for a native son who went from working in the fields to a distinguished career at Harvard Law School, where he taught Barack and Michelle Obama.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man who died in January after a brutal beating by Memphis police officers, never had the chance to exhibit the photographs he took of his adopted hometown.But starting this weekend, a selection will appear on roadside billboards as part of the Desert X biennial a highly adventurous and occasionally political art exhibition that can be viewed at outdoor sites across the Palm Springs area.

New Jersey will expand a high school course in African American Studies to 25 schools across the state, Gov. Philip D. Murphy announced this week, a move that inserted the state into an escalating culture-war battle over the way schools teach about race and racism.The New Jersey governor's announcement followed a decision by the Florida education department to ban the course in that state's high schools after pressure from Gov. Ron DeSantis.

​A San Francisco panel studying reparations has proposed a one-time payment of $5 million to each black resident of the city deemed eligible as recompense for the "decades of harm they have experienced," according to a report on Monday."A lump sum payment would compensate the affected population ... and will redress the economic and opportunity losses that​ ​Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as the result of both intentional decisions and​ ​unintended harms perpetuated by City policy​," the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee said in a draft report issued last month, Fox News Digital reported.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said the UK Government's Northern Ireland legacy bill must adequately ensure respect for the rights of victims, survivors and their families.Volker Turk said the draft legislation as it stands appears to be incompatible with the UK's international human rights obligations.

Charles and Willa Bruce with Bruce's Beach (California African American Museum, Getty) Six months after Los Angeles County returned Bruce's Beach to the descendants of Black owners, the family is selling the property in Manhattan Beach back to the county for $20 million.The Bruce family, whose beachfront property was returned in July after it was seized nearly a century ago because they were Black, will sell two parcels back to the county, the Torrance Daily Breeze reported.