Reparations

Plaque commemorating General Sherman’s Field Order 15 for reparations in 1865
Domestic News

On Juneteenth activist group demands passage of reparations legislation

July 1, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress (POP) PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS (POP) PO BOX 22505 NEWARK, NJ 07101 973 801-0001 www.njpop.org CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE Today, on the Juneteenth holiday to celebrate the […]
National Black Farmers Association President John Boyd, Jr. speaking at 29th annual conference
Domestic News

African American Farmers Facing Complete Annihilation Under Trump Tariffs

April 29, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In a recent interview with the Cable News Network (CNN), the Founder and President of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA), John Boyd, Jr., says that the agricultural policies of the administration […]
Viola Fletcher is the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Massacre
Domestic News

Justice Department Abandons Investigation of Tulsa Race Massacre

March 10, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe One of the major failures of the previous administration of Joe Biden was not following through on policy mandates aimed at ameliorating the historical phenomenon of institutionalized racist violence in the United […]
Civil War measure suggests direction to break Big Tech’s assault today
Domestic News

Confiscation, Reparations and Reconstruction’s solution to the “Elon Musk problem”

February 28, 2025 fwstaff
By Chris Fry In his famous “March to the Sea” in 1864, during the final phase of the Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman faced a problem. As his army marched through Confederate Georgia […]
AU 38th Ordinary Summit logo, Feb. 15-16, 2025
International News

African Union 38th Ordinary Summit Demands Reparations for Enslavement and Colonialism

February 21, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On February 15-16, the African Union hosted its 38th Ordinary Summit at its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the theme of “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations.” […]
People’s Organization for Progress members display signs with numerous demands, while POP Chairman Lawrence Hamm speaks at rally in front of Newarks’ Lincoln Monument
Domestic News

Juneteenth March and Rally for Reparations in Newark

July 13, 2023 fwstaff
By Terri Kay June 19, 2023: The People’s Organization for Progress, POP, and the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, NJISJ, chose to focus the celebration of Juneteenth with a day of action for Reparations. […]
Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologizes for African enslavement
International News

Netherlands Prime Minister Apologizes for Atlantic Slave Trade

December 27, 2022 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe Over the last few decades the demand to pay reparations for African enslavement has drawn support from around the world. Africans on the continent along with those living in other parts […]
A handmade democracy placard at the ‘Mobilization for Democracy rally,’ Jan. 6, 2022
Domestic News

People’s March” for Voting Rights, Equality, and Democracy

March 19, 2022 fwstaff
By Esther Paul, Public Square Amplified Originally published on March 1, 2022, Esther Paul/ POP Million People’s March for Voting Rights  NEWARK, NJ—“We who believe in freedom cannot rest,” go the lyrics of “Ella’s Song.” […]
James Forman and Lucius Walker issue the Black Manifesto in May 1969
Domestic News

Localizing Reparations During an Era of Intensified Repression

October 14, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A New York Times Sunday edition article on September 26 devoted an entire page, excluding an ad for luxurious furniture, to an examination of various efforts in the United States to initiate […]
Lessie Benningfield Randle, Tulsa African American woman and survivor of the 1921 massacre
Domestic News

Scientists and Historians Uncover Further Details of Racist 1921 Tulsa Massacre

December 3, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During World War I (1914-1918) and the immediately following years (1919-1921), racial tensions escalated inside the United States resulting in numerous efforts by white racists to contain and in many cases remove […]