Reparations Recap on Baileyblog and beyond this past year
Dear Baileyblog readers, It’s time to seriously consider Reparations. Here is a look back on some of our articles on Reparations including the latest for Diverse Issues in Higher Education. For more information on the longstanding Reparations movement, please...
Reparations 101 : Because there are Two Americas
This week I am thinking of both President Abraham Lincoln and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two of their most famous speeches. Both speeches at their very essence are, in my view, suggestive of the need for reparations for people of African descent though they do...
Those Confederate Statues Part 2
Dear Readers, Happy to share with you that my article about those Confederate statues got published today in USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/12/remove-confederate-statues-honor-abolitionists-end-racism-column/5406829002/ I want add...
American Society Masked and Unmasked: A Call for A National Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Last week, Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., gave a moving speech at the funeral of Rayshard Brooks who was shot by a police officer on June 12 in a Wendy’s parking lot in Atlanta. In a funeral which heeded COVID19 guidelines, she referenced...
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