Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
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On Who We Are, host Carvell Wallace and ACLU Deputy Director Jeffery Robinson reach back to tipping points in American history, to examine the white supremacist foundation on which the nation's legal, political and social systems were built. A podcast by Ben & Jerry's and produced by Vox Creative.
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The podcast explores themes of systemic racism, historical injustices, and social equity, covering topics such as the reparations debate and the impact of the 1994 Crime Bill on incarceration. Episodes like Revisiting Reparations examine the historical promises to African Americans, while others, like The Myth of Post-Racial America, link past policies to ongoing issues in voting and health disparities.
On Who We Are, host Carvell Wallace and ACLU Deputy Director Jeffery Robinson reach back to tipping points in American history, to examine the white supremacist foundation on which the nation’s legal, political and social systems were built. A podcast by Ben & Jerry’s and produced by Vox Creative.
In 1865, General William T. Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15— a promise to redistribute 40 acres of once Confederate-owned land in coastal South Carolina and Florida to each formerly enslaved adult to begin mending the seemingly unmendable. It never came to pass. H.R. 40, also known as the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, has been brought to Congress repeatedly since 1989, first by the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich), now by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex). Hear Jeffery Robinson, founder of the Who We Are Project and deputy director of the ACLU take on the past, present and future of reparations with veteran political activist Dr. Ron Daniels and legal expert and reparations advocate Nkechi Taifa.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Baldwin, James.The Fire Next Time. Vintage, 1992
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic. June, 2014.
Du Bois, W.E.B.Black Reconstruction in America 1860 – 1880. Free Press, 1999
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863 – 1877. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2014.
H.R.40 – Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
Lockhart, P.R. The 2020 Democratic Primary Debate Over Reparations, Explained. Vox.com, June 19, 2019
Marable, Manning. Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader. Routledge, 2011.
National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) 10-Point Reparations Plan
Taifa, Nkechi. Black Power, Black Lawyer. House of Songhay II, 2020.
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