Slavery Reparations Information Center

Press Releases

“Black Activists Call Senate Slavery Apology ‘Useless’; Say It Will Empower the Call for Reparations” – National Center for Public Policy Research, June 22, 2009
https://nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Reparations_062209.html

“Even if Millions Rally on the Mall, Reparations Won’t Heal Black America” – National Center for Public Policy Research, August 15, 2002
https://nationalcenter.org/P21PRReparations802.html

Commentary

“What Conservatives Think: Should Black Americans Receive Reparations Payments Because of Slavery?” – National Center for Public Policy Research, August 23, 2004
https://nationalcenter.org/WCT082304.html

“Reparations for slavery?  Or discrimination against light-skinned citizens?” Adversity.Net, January 30, 2004.
http://www.adversity.net/reparations/reparations_for_reverse_discrimination.htm

“Would Reparations for Slavery be Just?”- by Edward J.Erler, senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, May 5, 2002.
http://www.claremont.org/writings/020505erler.html

“America has Apologized,” New Visions Commentary by Mychal Massie, August 2003 https://nationalcenter.org/P21NVMassieApology803.html

“The Reparations Pipe Dream and the Tax Cut Reality,” New Visions Commentary by Kevin Martin, June 2003 https://nationalcenter.org/P21NVMartinPipedream603.html

“Even if Millions Rally on the Mall, Reparations Won’t Heal Black America; Huge “Millions for Reparations: They Owe Us” Rally on National Mall on August 17 Opposed by Conservative Black Leadership Group” Project 21 Press Release, August 2002.
https://nationalcenter.org/P21PRReparations802.html

“Slavery Reparations Aren’t a ‘Free Lunch'”- New Visions Commentary, by Michael King, Project 21, April 2002.
https://nationalcenter.org/P21NVKingReparations502.html

“Who Should Pay for Reparations? Black Americans . . . Obviously”- New Visions Commentary by Mike Green, Project 21, May 2001. https://nationalcenter.org/P21NVGreenReparations501.html

“Which Uncle Tom Am I?”- New Visions Commentary by Mike Green, Project 21, January 2002.
https://nationalcenter.org/P21NVGreenUncleTom102.html

“Reparations, Anyone?”- New Visions Commentary by Kimberley Jane Wilson, Project 21, August 2001.
https://nationalcenter.org/P21NVWilsonReparations801.html

“10 Reasons Why Reparations For Blacks Are A Bad Idea For Blacks And Racist, Too”- by David Horowitz, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, May 30, 2000.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1153

“Reparations Wouldn’t Cover the Whole Debt”- by Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr., April 18, 2001.
http://www.freep.com/voices/columnists/pitts18_20010418.htm

“The Problems with Black Progress”- by Deroy Murdock, National Review Online, November 9, 2001.
http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdockprint110901.html

“David Horowitz and Reparations”- by Charles Krauthammer, syndicated columnist, April 8, 2001.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/charleskrauthammer/printck20010408.shtml

“Reparations and Jesse Jackson’s ‘Illegitimate Children'”- by Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, WorldNetDaily, April 5, 2002.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27109

“Reparations Now”- by Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online, March 19, 2001.
http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldbergprint031901.html

“Getting Out of Debt”- by Robert A. George, National Review Online, February 3-4, 2001.
http://www.nationalreview.com/weekend/culture/culture-georgeprint020301.html

“What America Owes Me”- by Michelle Malkin, syndicated columnist, January 12, 2001.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20010112.shtml

“The Reparations Fraud – Part 1”- by Thomas Sowell, senior fellow of the Hoover Institute, January 4, 2002.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20020104.shtml

“The Reparations Fraud – Part 2”- by Thomas Sowell, senior fellow of the Hoover Institute, January , 2002.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20020104.shtml

“Victimizing Blacks”- by Thomas Sowell, senior fellow of the Hoover Institute, August 2, 2001.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20010802.shtml

“America’s Racial Divide: Of Debts Spoken and Unspoken”- by Lucas E. Morel, Adjunct Fellow at the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, June 2001.
http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v9n3/morel.html

“America’s Original Sin”- by Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, May 30, 2001.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/lc20010530.shtml

News

“Black Leader to Start ‘Stop Reparations’ Tour,” Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), April 16, 2002.
http://www.bondinfo.org/mediacommunications/pressreleases/reparations.htm

“California Considering Slave Reparations”- Foxnews.com, May 6, 2002.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52062,00.html

“Second Slave Reparations Suit Filed”- Foxnews.com, May 2, 2002.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,51723,00.html

“Suit Seeks Billions in Slave Reparations”- CNN.com, March 27, 2002.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/03/26/slavery.reparations/index.html

“Rice Dismisses Reparations for Slavery”- CNN.com, September 9, 2001.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/09/09/rice.reparations/index.html

“Censorship on College Campuses”–Insight magazine, June 17, 2002. Report on the furor surrounding the publication of David Horowitz’s ’10 Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery Is a Bad Idea’- and Racist Too.”
http://www.insightmag.com/global_user_elements/printpage.cfm?storyid=251678

“The Case for Slavery Reparations”- Minnesota Public Radio, November 13, 2000. A report by Brandt Williams on the arguments made by advocates of slavery reparations.
http://news.mpr.org/features/200011/13_williamsb_reparations/

“The Case For Black Reparations”- TransAfrica Forum, 2000. Transcript of a discussion on slavery reparations.
http://www.transafricaforum.org/reports/print/reparations_print.shtml

Litigation

Text of the lawsuit filed by Deadria Farmer-Paellmann seeking reparations from FleetBoston Financial, CSX, and Aetna for their alleged role in promoting slavery.
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/slavery/fpllmnflt032602cmp.pdf

“The Case After Slavery”- A legal commentary by Evan P. Schulz.
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law /View&c=Article&cid=ZZZXCV7TLUC&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0

“Reparations Suits Are Too Little, Too Late”- A legal commentary by Steven P. Benenson.
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law /View&c=Article&cid=ZZZ6AXLGC1D&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0

“The Color of Money: It’s Red for Reparations”- A legal commentary by Norm Pattis.
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law /View&c=Article&cid=ZZZOY98EYZC&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0

“Perpetual Guilt? Legal Efforts to Punish Centuries-old Transgressions Will Open Pandora’s Box”- A legal commentary by Harold Johnson.
http://pacificlegal.org/op-ed/ed-guilt.htm

“A New Dream Team Intends to Seek Reparations for Slavery”- Part I”- A legal commentary by Anthony J. Sebok.
http://writ.corporate.findlaw.com/sebok/20001120.html

“Should Claims Based on African-American Slavery Be Litigated in the Courts? And If So, How?”- A legal commentary by Anthony J. Sebok.
http://writ.corporate.findlaw.com/sebok/20001204.html

Groups

Project 21
http://www.project21.org/P21Index.html

N’Cobra (The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America)
http://www.ncobra.org

Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND)
http://www.bondinfo.org

Adversity.net – reparations page
http://www.adversity.net/reparations/reparations_for_reverse_discrimination.htm