Grassroots Reparations Campaign

09/08/2026

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Jamaica today filed a historic petition to King Charles III, marking a new chapter in the country’s pursuit of reparatory justice for the transatlantic enslavement of Africans.

The petition asks the King, in his capacity as Jamaica’s Head of State, to refer three legal questions concerning chattel slavery in Jamaica to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the country’s highest court. Officials have clarified that the petition is not a direct demand for payment.

Culture Minister Olivia “Babsy” Grange, who is leading a Jamaican delegation in the United Kingdom, said the legal action is intended to honour the African ancestors who endured hundreds of years of enslavement and help secure a long-overdue settlement for what she described as the gravest crime against humanity.

08/27/2026

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Harvard University spent years researching a Hingham woman’s genealogy without her knowledge.

They discovered she is a descendant of a man who had been enslaved by a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers. A Globe reporter told her the news. https://trib.al/vr239SJ

08/09/2026

Twelve years ago, on August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr. was killed in the street in front of his own neighbors. He was 18. He had just finished high school and was two days from starting college.

What followed in Ferguson wasn't just protest, it was testimony. Neighbors, mothers, clergy, and young people stood up and told the truth about what policing and disinvestment had done to their community for generations. That truth-telling is where this organization began.

Twelve years later, the work hasn't changed: witness what happened, name what's still happening, and build the repair. Not charity. Not a moment of silence and moving on. Repair, restitution, accountability, and a real accounting of harm, carried forward by the people closest to it.

We hold Michael Brown Jr.'s name today. We hold his family, who have carried this for twelve years. And we hold everyone still doing the work of turning grief into organizing.

Rest in power, Mike Brown. The truth continues.

04/27/2026

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies are racist and are intended to send even documented Global South immigrants and naturalized citizens out of the country. The evidence is clear, but the media cover up what is very obvious.

03/12/2026

BAR Editor and Columnist Ajamu Baraka joined BettBeat Media, alongside Dr. Gerald Horne, to discuss the US imperialist campaign against Iran amid the ongoing genocide of Palestinians and how the same forces that inflict that violence abroad are reflected in domestic state repression.

02/03/2026

Denmark Vesey was a freedom fighter who dared to dream of liberation in the face of slavery’s brutality. A formerly enslaved man in Charleston, South Carolina, Vesey organized what would have been one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history in 1822. The plan was uncovered before it could be carried out, and Vesey was arrested, tried, and executed by hanging.

He dared to challenge a system built on oppression. Vesey stood up when it was dangerous to even speak of freedom! His legacy reminds us that justice has always demanded courage, and that true change begins with those unafraid to speak TRUTH to power!

02/02/2026

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