Resistance is Action
Slavery, colonialism, and their ongoing legacies are always met with actions of resistance.
These actions strategically interrupt oppressive power and strive for political solutions.
Olaudah Equiano
Abolitionists in Action
Justice is not only about the protection of personal rights, but also about ensuring community benefits such as political representation, unbiased laws, access to education, food, land, financial resources, and health care.
In the past, activists worked tireless to end the system of slavery. Now, abolitionists demand the end of the racist policing-legal-prison-industrial complex.
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Olaudah Equiano
After laboring in bondage in the Caribbean, he eventually obtained his freedom and became of the most prolific abolitionist writers and advocates of the late 18th century.
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Paul Cuffe
Cuffe became one of the wealthiest African Americans through shipping and made use of these resources to develop land and transport freed slaves in Sierra Leone.
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Anna Julia Cooper
In 1892, Cooper wrote her first book, A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South, which is widely acknowledged as one of the first articulations of Black feminism.
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P. B. S. Pinchback
Pinchback was the first African American to serve as governor of Louisiana during the Reconstruction Era. During his thirty-six days in office, several appointments were granted, and ten legislative bills were sanctioned.
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Samuel Sharpe
Sharpe was a well-known preacher and leader in the Baptist Church and eventual leader of the 1831 Christmas Rebellion in Jamaica.
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David Walker
David Walker insisted that the abolition of slavery was not just a question for the U.S. South, but also for the U.S. North where the majority of Black people still labored in bondage as domestic workers, field hands, and porters.
Reparations
How the long fight for slavery reparations is slowly being won.
Organizations in Action
These organizations seek to repair the governmental policies, laws, financial systems, and cultural institutions that have oppressed us for generations.
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CARICOM Reparations Commission
The CARICOM Reparations Commission is a regional body created to establish the moral, ethical and legal case for the payment of Reparations by the Governments of former colonial and people of the Caribbean Community for the Crimes against Humanity of Native Genocide, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and a racialized system of chattel Slavery.
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National African American Reparations Commission
NAARC is a group of distinguished professionals from across the country with outstanding accomplishments in the fields of law, medicine, journalism, academia, history, civil rights and social justice advocacy.
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‘Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide!’
The petition is one of the ISMAR campaigning tools for mobilizing people’s power to exert upon the British Houses of Parliament towards establishing the All-Party Parliamentary Commission For Truth & Reparatory Justice, and other actions necessary to advance the process of dialogue from the ground-upwards.
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Institute of the Black World 21st Century
IBW provides public policy analysis, facilitate cross organizational dialogue and collaboration, build bridges of discourse and encourage collective action among a range of community organizers, social justice advocates, human rights activists, scholars and journalists.
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NATIONAL COALITION OF BLACKS FOR REPARATIONS IN AMERICA
The mission of NCOBRA is to win full Reparations for Black African Descendants residing in the United States and its territories for the genocidal war against Africans that created the TransAtlantic Slave “Trade”, Jim Crow and Chattel Slavery’s continuing vestiges (the Maafa).
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Reparations 4 Slavery
The portal connects White Americans to resources that help understand their history, the nature of institutional racism, how their families fit into the puzzle, and ways to repair the damage. You will hear stories from black and white perspectives. You will hear from both liberals and conservatives. And, you will learn innovative ways they’ve chosen to make reparations.