Advocacy for Reparations for Slavery
“Despite substantial changes since the end of the enforcement of Jim Crow and the fight for civil rights, ideology ensuring the domination of one group over another, continues to negatively impact the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of African Americans today.”
Without particularly endorsing any specific proposals, in September 2016, the United Nation’s Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent encouraged Congress to pass the H.R.40 Bill to study reparations proposals.
The report noted the legacy of racial inequality in the United States, explaining, “Despite substantial changes since the end of the enforcement of Jim Crow and the fight for civil rights, ideology ensuring the domination of one group over another, continues to negatively impact the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of African Americans today.”
In 1993, the African Reparations Movement, ARM, was created after the declaration of the Abuja Proclamation at the First Pan-African Conference on Reparations.
The conference was convened by OAU, the Organization of African Unity, in association with the…