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REPARATIONS ROUNDTABLE – PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY JULY 23 6:30 PM (Zoom)

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BE THE POWER 07.21.2020 – Understanding the reparations program. Criticisms and Responses (youtube.com)

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Unfinished: Deep South S1 E4 White Memories (Podcast)

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Episode Info The lynching of Isadore Banks was a catastrophe for the African American community of Marion, Arkansas, and it’s

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William “Sandy” Darity | TED2020 | A Blueprint For Reparations in the US (ted.com)

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With clarity and insight, economist and author William “Sandy” Darity discusses how the grievous injustice of slavery in the US

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BE THE POWER: 7.16.2020 “Nick Cannon; New Reconstruction & Where Will The Reparations Money Come From?” (youtube.com)

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In this July 16, 2020 broadcast, the #BTP – BE THE POWER team analyzes the firing of Nick Cannon. BTP

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July 14, 2020 — Reparations Roundtable for Black Americans (Zoom Webinar)

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Unfinished: Deep South Podcast — S1 E3 Family Ties

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Tracing back Isadore’s family helps understand his wealth. Isadore wasn’t an anomaly—many African Americans in the south had land, built

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Saturday Morning Solutions 7.11.20 (soundcloud.com, WLOU 104.7 FM Louisville, KY)

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Saturday Morning Solution Show. Originally broadcast July 11, 2020 on PraizePower 1350AM/The New Praize 104.7 FM WLOU Radio, Louisville, Kentucky.

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Unfinished: Deep South Podcast — S1 E2 The High Sheriff

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A $7 million dollar fortune. A white supremacist sheriff. And a 66-year old mystery: what happened to Isadore Banks’ land

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Unfinished: Deep South Podcast — S1 E1 Isadore Banks

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For most of his life Isadore Banks found ways to survive—and thrive—in the violently anti-black South. He became one of

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Conversation with Dr. Terence Lester, June 21st, West Louisville Forum

Conversation with Dr. Terence Lester, June 21st, West Louisville Forum

Christianity and Critical Race Theory: Footnotes with Jemar Tisby

Christianity and Critical Race Theory: Footnotes with Jemar Tisby

O.P.E.N. to SCKY 2023

O.P.E.N. to SCKY 2023

Happy Juneteenth!

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