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By Lisa R. Brown, Steven C. Cannon, William A. Darity, and A. Kirsten Mullen.
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Kimberly Jones explains reparations in 58 seconds.
Prize-winning author Kimberly Jones uses the board game Monopoly to sum up 401 years of oppression and explain why reparations are necessary. Jones is co-author of “I’m Not Dying with You Tonight.” Her newest book, “How Can We Win?” will be published in early 2021. She’s on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube. For everything Kimberly Jones, check out here website: KimberlyJonesWrites.Representative Karen Bass speaking on reparations, June 19, 2019
William Darity, Jr. (Sandy) & A. Kirsten Mullen
Links to articles, interviews, videos, and book reviews of From Here to Equality
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1. Reparations and the American Creed: A conversation with William Darity, Jr.
May 17, 2020 Interview with William Darity, Jr. (Sandy) on The American Project. In this wide-ranging conversation, prize-winning economist Sandy Darity discusses his plan for reparations for American slavery and its legacy. Based on thirty years of research, Professor Darity’s plan is pragmatic, at once fiscally sound and deeply moral.2. From Here To Equality: THE Conversation About Black Reparations
May 2020 Interview with Sandy Darity and Kirsten Mullen on the podcast, “Makin’ A Difference.”3. A Program of Black Reparations
June 29, 2020 Except from From Here to Equality in “Non-Profit Quarterly.”4. Resurrecting the Promise of 40 Acres: The Imperative of Reparations for Black Americans
June 20, 2020 New insights and information from Sandy Darity and Kirsten Mullen. Report for The Roosevelt Institute.5. 19 Black economists to celebrate and know, this Juneteenth and beyond
June 19, 2020 Profile of Sandy Darity.6. Rectifying HR 40: The prelude to Black reparations in the 21st century
June 19, 2020 Opinion piece by Sandy Darity and Kirsten Mullen in “theGrio.”7. Reparations Are a Concrete Way to Address Systemic Racism and Inequality
June 19, 2020 Op/Ed calling for reparations by Kirsten Mullen and Sandy Darity in “Teen Vogue.”8. The Case for Reparations, written testimony
September 9, 2019 Sandy Darity’s written testimony to the U.S. House subcommittee considering the reparations bill H.R. 40. Darity calls for changes to the bill.9. 40 Acres And A Mule: How Post Civil War Policy Kicked Off Racial Wealth Inequality
June 17, 2020 Interview with Sandy Darity on “Here & Now,” WBUR.10. ‘From Here to Equality’ Review: The Work of Atonement
June 17, 2020 Book review in the Wall Street Journal, by Walter Russell Mead.11. Are Reparations Even Possible?
March 9, 2020 Interview with experts (including Sandy Darity and Kirsten Mullen) on the logistics of a reparations program, on The American Project.12. ‘From Here to Equality’ Author Makes A Case, And A Plan, For Reparations
June 17, 2020 Interview with Sandy Darity on NPR’s Morning Edition.13. Reparations for African-Americans
June 10, 2020 Interview with Sandy Darity and others on the BBC.14. Can reparations help right the wrongs of slavery?
August 1, 2019 PBS NewsHour.15. Race Matters: America in Crisis
June 5, 2020 PBS NewsHour Special16. Who Should Receive Reparations for Slavery and Discrimination?
May 24, 2019 “The New Yorker Radio Hour,” a co-production of The New Yorker and WNYC Studios.17. The 2020 Race Is Reigniting The Centuries-Old Debate Over Reparations
April 9, 2019 Interview with Kirsten Mullen, WAMU.18. William Darity on Reparations and Campaign 2020
March 21, 2019 Interview with Sandy Darity on “Washington Journal,” C-SPAN.19. Reparations Talk with Marianne Williamson, William Darity, Jr. and Kirsten Mullen
March 27, 2019 Interview with Kirsten Mullen and Sandy Darity on “Marianne Now.”20. S5E1 Reparations: How it Could Happen
February 19, 2020 Interview with Sandy Darity on the podcast, “Ways & Means.”21. Reparations for Black Americans—Whether, why, and how?
April 27, 2020 Webinar with Sandy Darity and Kirsten Mullen hosted by the Brookings Institute.22. Time for an Awakening
May 17, 2020 Interview about “From Here to Equality” with Kirsten Mullen and Sandy Darity on the podcast, “Time for an Awakening.”23. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
May 27, 2020 Interview about “From Here to Equality” with Kirsten Mullen and Sandy Darity, hosted by The Economic Policy Institute.24. Any serious conversation about closing racial wealth gap has to consider reparations
February 27, 2020 Sandy Darity discusses reparations on Washington Post Live.25. Black Reparation
July 15, 2009 Interview with Sandy Darity on “PennState on Demand,” WPSU.26. How do we span the racial wealth gap?
June 19, 2019 Presentation by Sandy Darity on TEDxDurham.27. Wealth and Structural Racism
April 12, 2016 Presentation by Sandy Darity at Brown University for their series, “How Structural Racism Works.28. Frankly Speaking: William “Sandy” Darity Jr.
October 28, 2019 Short presentation by Sandy Darity, UNC Kenan Institute.29. Conversation with William A. “Sandy” Darity
August 5, 2016 Interview with Sandy Darity, The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.30. The Economic Legacy of Racism
September 28, 2019 Interview with Sandy Darity, The Institute for New Economic Thinking.31. Dramatic Social Change Requires Imagination
November 29, 2016 Short video with Sandy Darity, by Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University.32. Forty Acres in the 21st Century: Reparations for Black America
November 12, 2013 Presentation by Sandy Darity, Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University.33. Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap
November 5, 2018 Interview with Sandy Darity, “The Ezra Klein Show” podcast.34. 1619: The Racist Roots of the U.S. Wealth Gap
August 20, 2019 Interview with Sandy Darity, “The Takeaway” podcast.35. How would reparations for African Americans actually work?
February 24, 2020 Interview with Sandy Darity in “Futurity.”36. The Economics of Reparations
February 19, 2016 Interview with Sandy Darity, “The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC.37. From Here to Equality
January 13, 2020 Book review in Kirkus Reviews: “Essential to any debate over the need for and way to achieve meaningful large-scale reparations. ”38. Why does the racial wealth gap matter?
June 17, 2020 Interview with Sandy Darity, “The Moment,” The Center for Public Integrity.39. An Expert Responds to Ta-Nehisi Coates on Reparations
May 23, 2014 An interview with Sandy Darity, “Demos.”40. In Black Communities’ Fight Against COVID-19, The Real ‘Pre-Existing Condition’ Is Poverty
April 22, 2020 Interview with Sandy Darity on “The State of Things,” WUNC.41. Two Economists Fuel Democratic Debate Over How Far Left to Go
July 14, 2019 Profile of Sandy Darity and Darrick Hamilton, “The Wall Street Journal.”42. Wealth Implications of Slavery and Racial Discrimination for African American Descendants of the Enslaved
June 19, 2020 Article in “The Review of Black Political Economy.”43. From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
June 27, 2020 Virtual book event (with Q&A) with Sandy Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen hosted by Mystic River Area Branch, NAACP.44. The Gist
July 6, 2020 Interview with Sandy Darity on “The Gist” podcast (begins at about nine minutes in).45. TED2020 A blueprint for reparations in the US
July 14, 2020 (recorded June 30) A half-hour talk by Sandy Darity on TEDTalks.46. Ground-Breakers for Racial Equity & Justice
July 22, 2020 Jan Roberts, Founder of Cultural Innovations in Action, distilled 7 hours of zoom interviews to 6 minutes of highlights of conversations with William Darity, Ph.D. and Kirsten Mullen, Co-Authors of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in 21st Century; Hakim Williams, Ed.D., Director of Peace & Justice Studies at Gettysburg College and Steve Hanlon, J.D., veteran public interest and civil rights attorney.Carlton Waterhouse, expanded remarks
Professor Carlton Waterhouse
Transcript:
In my earlier work, and in an earlier article called, “Total Recall,” I look at the question of reparations in terms of the need to restore our public memory of slavery and how part of the American understanding of slavery is distorted. And it’s distorted in a way because it robs the enslaved Africans of their humanity as a matter of our public memory, and it robs the enslaved Africans of their dignity in terms of honoring them and recognizing the contributions they made in the development and construction of the country. And so, in that article, I’m trying to point out that one aspect of reparations needs to be reshaping the way we think about the past and reshaping the way we think about the Africans who were enslaved, who actually paved the road, for lack of a better word, to describe our indebtedness to them and their contributions. So, through the form of monuments, museums, and memorials and educational programs, it’s vital that all of the former states that had enslaved Africans take the time to construct monuments, to dedicate museums, and to have memorials that honor those Africans and the contributions that they made and to recognize them in very meaningful ways. That’s a critical aspect of reparations. I felt it at the time I wrote that article. I still feel that today. However, in terms of reparations, payments, in that article I focused very much on limiting our thinking about payments in light of slavery to the creation of monuments, memorials and museums, and that financial reparations and redress should be focused around Jim Crow based harms. This may be a distinction in theory while not really in practice.This kind of political engagement at the local level is a critical part of building African American political capacity that has been frustrated historically, first, when African Americans were enslaved and denied the right to vote, and then for a hundred years thereafter.I want to say that, today, my view would recognize that the idea of honoring the enslaved Africans not only can include the construction of monuments, memorials, museums and educational programs, but also could include some financial redress for their descendants, financial redress that will then be used to promote institutional based reparations. So I’m not so much making a change practically. I don’t think this really impacts the difference for me in terms of, for example, what’s the appropriate amount for reparations. In fact, what it really does is just acknowledges the fact that because of the legacy of slavery and segregation, the award of reparations can be a whole rather than being bifurcated in terms of reparations for slavery versus reparations for Jim Crow. Instead, I think it would be appropriate to say we have reparations for African Americans in light of slavery and segregation and their continuing legacy. And so that, for me, would include monuments, memorials, museums, educational programs, funds to go toward institutional-based reparations, the creation of trust funds that then would be used in order to support educational programming for African Americans that would eliminate the achievement gap, make more educational institutions stronger that are dedicated to African American experience and African American identity and African American students, as well as to provide reparations in the form of trust fund to fund support for African American businesses, African American credit to provide financing for African American ventures and startups in order to provide funding for training for persons who want to be involved in business, who are African Americans, and a very comprehensive approach to supporting African American economic development at a community level. And then a third trust fund would be to support greater political engagement by African Americans, including the creation of institutions for African American children to be able to get engaged in political activism. This is not party politics we’re talking here. What we’re talking about is community engagement in the political process of decision making. Where do parks get located? What should be the zoning in the community in the neighborhood in the city? What kind of library should be built? What community centers should be built and where? This kind of political engagement at the local level is a critical part of building African American political capacity that has been frustrated historically, first, when African Americans were enslaved and denied the right to vote, and then for a hundred years thereafter. So that is kind of the approach that I would take and I think I write more fully in this new article that’s coming out in Howard Law Journal this fall. And then also in my dissertation, “The Full Price of Freedom.”