Freedmen News Watch · November 13, 2026, 1:20 PM CST
Key Facts
- The descendants of slavery have a right to reparations: chairman of CARICOM Reparations Commission (via Global Times)
The descendants of slavery have a right to reparations: chairman of CARICOM Reparations Commission.
The colonial powers responsible for slavery need to return to the scene of their crimes and work with governments seeking to promote development to expand economic activity and advance social justice, says CARICOM Reparations Commission chair Hilary Beckles in an interview with GT reporter Wang Wenwen in #ITalk.[1]
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This series follows the news that bears on Black American freedmen and their descendants, the people freed from slavery in this country: citizenship and treaty-rights cases such as the Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Freedmen, the Dawes Rolls and Freedmen’s Bureau records, heirs’ property and Black land loss, reparations and descendant-based programs, and the history and memory of emancipation. It covers the hard news and the good news alike. Every passage is quoted as reported and linked to its source, and nothing is generated. The photograph on each post is a public-domain file photo from Wikimedia Commons, credited, and shows a place or monument, not the people in the story.
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References
- Global Times. The descendants of slavery have a right to reparations: chairman of CARICOM Reparations Commission. ↩
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Freedmen's Bureau Records and Preservation Guides. Primary (official source) ↩
- U.S. Department of Justice. Civil Rights Division Case Highlights. Primary (official source) ↩
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File photo: The exterior of the Cherokee National Supreme Court Museum in Tahlequah, Oklahoma (0c9bfdfd-54db-422b-85d7-786908473ff7) — National Trails Office (US National Park Service), 2016. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. This image is illustrative and does not depict the people or events in this report.
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