Black News · Sep 28, 2026The Reparations Report: The Gravest Crime and the Wrong Claim: Reparations After the United Nations Declaration on Enslavement

Black News · The Reparations Report · September 28, 2026

Key Facts

• The Gravest Crime and the Wrong Claim: Reparations After the United Nations Declaration on Enslavement (via internationalaffairs.org.au)^[1]
• Cynthia Perry (‘23) has made contributions to the Episcopal City Mission’s distribution efforts for reparations (via bu.edu)^[2]
• Thousands of victims, millions in reparations. How France handled mass church sex abuse (via goshennews.com)^[3]

The Gravest Crime and the Wrong Claim: Reparations After the United Nations Declaration on Enslavement

The UN’s landmark declaration on the enslavement of Africans rests on a legal weld that cannot bear its weight. Yet the stronger case for reparations was in the text all along; but states have chosen not to lead with it.^[1]

Separately, bu.edu reported:

Cynthia Perry (‘23) has made contributions to the Episcopal City Mission’s distribution efforts for reparations

Episcopal City Mission, a Boston nonprofit affiliated with the Diocese of Massachusetts, distributed $2.75 million in reparations to 25 Massachusetts-based organizations that are dedicated to promoting racial and economic justice and equity, truth-telling, reconciliation and strengthening communities. The announcement was made Sept. 15 at a press conference at St. Cyprian’s, a historically Black Episcopal church in Roxbury.^[2]

Elsewhere, goshennews.com added:

Thousands of victims, millions in reparations. How France handled mass church sex abuse

PARIS (AP) — As Pope Leo XIV prepares to meet Sunday with survivors of sexual abuse by clergy in France, an independent body created to address decades of church abuse is wrapping up its work and taking stock. France’s Independent National Authority for Recognition and Reparation, or INIRR announced this week that about 2,000 people who reported being sexually abused by priests or other church representatives have sought reparations.^[3]

References

1. internationalaffairs.org.au. The Gravest Crime and the Wrong Claim: Reparations After the United Nations Declaration on Enslavement. ↩
2. bu.edu. Cynthia Perry (‘23) has made contributions to the Episcopal City Mission’s distribution efforts for reparations. ↩
3. goshennews.com. Thousands of victims, millions in reparations. How France handled mass church sex abuse. ↩

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