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Restoring Voting Rights for People with Felony Convictions Is Essential to Reparations

The most critical reparation issue is certainly financial, but I have been working this legislative session on the restoration of voting rights for those with felony convictions here in Washington state. Although we decided not to explicitly include restoration language

February 28, 2019 No Comments

Redlining and the Many Effects of Slavery: Are You Willing to Act to Heal This Moral Injury?

By David J. Ragland Recent headlines reinforce how little progress has been made in terms of economic justice for African Americans. An exhaustive report by the Center for Investigative Journalism examined current redlining practices that fuel gentrification. Combing through over

February 26, 2019 No Comments

Redlining and the Many Effects of Slavery: Are You Willing to Act to Heal This Moral Injury?

By David J. Ragland Recent headlines reinforce how little progress has been made in terms of economic justice for African Americans. An exhaustive report by the Center for Investigative Journalism examined current redlining practices that fuel gentrification. Combing through over

February 26, 2019 No Comments

The Case for Interpersonal Reparations

“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America

February 24, 2019 No Comments

The Case for Interpersonal Reparations

“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America

February 24, 2019 No Comments

The Midpoint Between Truth and Reconciliation Is Reparations

Over the past two years, the article that has come up most frequently in my Facebook feed describes how a report submitted to the U.N. Council on Human Rights has argued that the United States should begin “reparatory justice” processes

February 21, 2019 No Comments

Trumpeting Revolutionary Nonviolence at Rosh Hashanah: For a New Year Against White Supremacy

There is a certain ache in my heart and head at having not been on the front lines in Charlottesville, Virginia. Every fiber of my being now wants to rush out to St. Louis, Missouri. Twice now, Sahar Alsahlani, the

September 19, 2017 No Comments

Trumpeting Revolutionary Nonviolence at Rosh Hashanah: For a New Year Against White Supremacy

There is a certain ache in my heart and head at having not been on the front lines in Charlottesville, Virginia. Every fiber of my being now wants to rush out to St. Louis, Missouri. Twice now, Sahar Alsahlani, the

September 19, 2017 No Comments

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