D.C. could be the next municipality to offer reparations to African Americans

D.C. could be the next municipality to offer reparations to African Americans

by Lex Juarez

October 7, 2020

Demanding racial equity Aligning finance with people and planet

“DC is taking its rightful place in the rising tide of cities who are designing and deploying comprehensive strategies to achieve reparative justice for all Black people in America. Our capacity for paying reparations and living by the ethics of reparative justice will not only provide redress for the historical and ongoing harms experienced by Black folks, but they also might serve as the redefined values necessary to save America’s precarious democratic experiment. Given this, Washington, DC is just the place to model and live into this future.” -Ronnie Galvin, V.P. Racial Equity and the Democratic Economy at The Democracy Collaborative

Read the full article at LocalDMV.com

Read the full article at The DC Line

Publication date: 2020-10-07

Publisher: LocalDMV.com

Publication URL: D.C. could be the next municipality to offer reparations to African Americans

by Lex Juarez

More related work

January 19, 2022

This must be the year of climate action—we've wasted so many

by Gus Speth

The climate issue has grown too large and devastating to ignore. We need the demand for action raised to the highest decibel our civil society can generate.

January 3, 2022

The case for investing in employee ownership

by Marjorie Kelly

For many years now, conventional solutions to income and wealth inequality—minimum wage, unions, progressive taxation, or guaranteed income—have failed to gain enough momentum to reverse the trend of greater and greater accumulation among the already well-off. What if we added a new approach

October 29, 2021

To address the racial wealth gap, build community wealth

by Sarah McKinley

A thriving local economy requires local ownership of productive assets so that the wealth created with them is spread broadly and shared by those who create that wealth in the first place. Sarah McKinley tells a Washington state housing conference.