Reparations Daily (ish) Vol. 35
Elon Musk's Wealth has Grown 600% in the Past Year
Happy Monday! No Hot Takes section today, but we’ll have one on Wednesday. Some really great pieces came out over the last week, some that I’d recommend giving a check out are:
This piece in Capital & Main gives a fresh examination of the racial wealth gap as Black communities reel from the economic damages of COVID-19.
I’ll be checking out this new NBC News podcast called ‘Southlake’ which details the fight against critical race theory in a small Texas town as detailed in this article.
This piece in the New Republic gives the national conversation around critical race theory some good context as it takes a dive into how opposition to CRT was met in Loudon County Virginia.
Lastly, this blog from the Institute for Policy Studies is based on a new data set they published which tracks how much U.S. billionaires have seen their wealth grow from March 18 2020 to August 17, 2021. See the screenshot below to see whose wealth grew the most.
See you Wednesday!
With radical love,
Trevor
National News
Capital & Main: America’s Racial Wealth Gap Is Enormous and Getting Worse
Bloomberg: We Can’t Educate Our Way to Racial Economic Equity
Institute for Policy Studies: U.S. Billionaires Got 62 percent Richer During Pandemic. They’re Now Up $1.8 Trillion.
Open Democracy: Delivering reparatory justice means uprooting the legacies of colonialism
Sun Journal: Holocaust victims got reparations, so why not descendants of trans-Atlantic slavery?
Sun Journal:Reparations for slavery is not about blame, but reconciliation
The Atlantic: Is This the End of Welfare as we Know it?
Revolt TV: Mutual support between Black business and their communities will help close the racial wealth gap
The Cut: Critical Race Theory Might Actually Save Us
US News & World Report: Asian, Black Americans More Likely to Give to Racial Justice
Moguldom: Biden DOJ Declines To Appeal Court Order Blocking Reparations For Black Farmers
Press Herald: Racial income and wealth gaps are huge – but the Fed doesn’t have the right tools to fix them
Regional News
NBC News: Inside Southlake: Texas suburb at center of a critical race theory battle looks forward
Philadelphia Inquirer: The new exhibit ‘Pool’ explores how the legacy of segregated pools still denies Black people the joy of water
New Republic: How the Critical Race Theory Scaremongering Failed in Virginia
Boston Globe: Do the rich always get richer?
Columbus Live: 'BLM': Reflecting on art and change a year after Downtown protests
Georgia State Signal: Reparations for Summerhill, Now
Citizen Times: Reparations: Project manager named, commission formation pushed to fall
Clarksville Online: Austin Peay State University’s James Thompson explores Tulsa Massacre reparations through National Fellowship
Seattle Times: Seattle-area educators ‘teach truth’ to push back against critical race theory opponents
International News
The Africa Report: Liberia: Civil war reparations’ proposal must be more practical and less ambiguous
National African—American Reparations Commission: Cemetery for enslaved Africans in Brazil discovered, turned into museum