#reparations

#reparations

Less than three months ago, Victor Jones was among more than 900 men who received apologies from Florida officials and checks for $21,000 as reparations for the horrific abuse they endured as children at state-run reform schools. On Sept. 30, Jones is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection for the 1990 murders of a couple in Miami-Dade County. He would be the third former student at the notorious reform schools to be executed in little more than a year.

"Germany previously acknowledged the genocide in 2021, yet reparations have proved elusive despite Namibia's calls for justice for the tens of thousands killed."

A House Democrat plans to introduce a resolution calling for the U.S. to spend trillions of dollars on reparations for Black Americans this week.

Oxford University academics used a chalice made from a human skull potentially belonging to an enslaved Caribbean woman at formal dinners until as recently as 2015.