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  1. The utter silence from the British Press about this, it was "Royal News" yesterday

    Oh sure, there are the stories, but the algorithms were not showing this one if that cursed Windows News tab is anything to go by...

    mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jama

    #UK #Jamaica #Reparations

  2. Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission Sir Hilary Beckles (vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies) described the adoption by the 80th UN General Assembly of the Resolution designating the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity, as a “historic, landmark decision.”
    #reparations #slavery #UNresolution #CrimeAgainstHumanity #CARICOM #Caribbean
    repeatingislands.com/2026/03/2

  3. UN Secretary-General António Guterre stated today:

    “Now we must remove the persistent barriers that prevent so many people of African descent from exercising their rights and realising their potential,”

    news.un.org/en/story/2026/03/1

    #AntónioGuterre #JohnDramaniMahama #Ghana #UN #SlaveTrade #BlackMastodon #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrican #Slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity #Reparations

  4. Huge update from the UN today, Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has secured a UN resolution declaring the slave trade (and it's lasting impacts) as one of the world's worst human rights abuses.

    President Mahama stressed the importance of this resolution in the fight for reparations paid by the countries who profited from slavery.

    presidency.gov.gh/speech-presi

    #JohnDramaniMahama #Ghana #UN #SlaveTrade #BlackMastodon #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrican #Slavery #CrimeAgainstHumanity #Reparations

  5. In #SanFrancisco , the city’s Board of Supervisors accepted recommendations for a #reparations plan that would offer $5 million to each eligible #AfricanAmerican resident, among other measures. It was just one of many steps on the way to making reparations a #reality for #Black #SanFranciscans but offered new #hope for the movement, which regained traction following the 2020 uprising for #racial #justice .

    democracynow.org/2023/3/16/hea

  6. #Histodons: Can you share links or other resources for the process of writing #microhistory? I'm working on a #Quaker #reparations #history project for my Meeting and and would like to begin sharing some of the stories using this approach. A Google search hasn't gotten me any truly helpful writing guides, yet. Any recommendations are truly appreciated.