A Black liberation group is calling on Philadelphia's City Council to study the effect of slavery on Black Philadelphians today and recommend ways to execute reparations.
By Layla A. Jones, The Philadelphia Inquirer
“We really need the city to put money behind researchers. We can’t just take the word of these financial [institutions].” The United States paid enslavers reparations after President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington, D.C., in 1862, paying slaveholders for each freed African American they’d formerly enslaved.Japanese Americans who were wrongfully imprisoned during World War II
N’COBRA was joined Thursday by Councilmembers Cindy Bass and Jamie Gauthier, mayoral candidate and former Councilmember Derek Green, and Donavan S. West, a City Council at-large candidate and member of the Mayor’s Commission on African American Males, among several others.
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