To me, there’s never been a more clear-cut case for reparations than that of Haiti.
Many have attempted to claim that `things are better here' for black people than in the US. This ignores both Europe's colonial past and its own racist present.
Influenza became one more example of British injustice that spurred Indian people in their fight for independence. Mahatma Gandhi wrote, “In no other civilized country could a government have left things so much undone as did the Government of India"
In the past week alone, the Puerto Rico Seismic Network registered 43 “significant” quakes, leaving many people fearful of going home. More than 8,000 houses have been damaged. Months after the first earthquake, thousands are still homeless.
Queen Sono will gain attention for being Netflix’s first African original series. It deserves attention for breaking barriers in Netflix’s programming examining everything from Black female independence to the impact of white colonialism on Africa.
Many victims were asylum-seekers attacked or killed by the gangs they originally fled.
Decolonization and the pursuit of a more egalitarian international order.
Prioritizing the state as worthy of relief, as something to which we automatically owe deference, subsumes life to the imperatives of capital.
Centuries of genocide against indigenous peoples have erased the real history of our hemisphere. Descendants of colonizers call the US a nation of immigrants, claiming ownership of land in the name of white people who displaced original inhabitants
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