Legislation introduced by Rep. Cori Bush calls on Congress to adopt measures aimed at righting historic wrongs, including issuing federal reparations to Black Americans.
May 19, 2023, 3:18 PMRepresentative Cori Bush speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., April 27, 2023.For the first time, the extensive history of the enslavement of Africans, post-Jim Crow discrimination and other racially charged subjects has been entered into the congressional record -- and repairing the lasting damage these institutions caused will have a hefty price tag, according to one Democratic lawmaker.
Representative Cori Bush speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., April 27, 2023.. The Greenwood District of Tulsa, known as the "Black Wall Street," was burned to ashes by white mobs on May 31, 1921. The last survivors of the massacre filed a lawsuit suing the city of Tulsa and local government entities and will find out within days whether or not their lawsuit will be able to proceed.
The U.S. benefited from over 222 million hours of forced slave labor, or the equivalent of roughly $97 trillion worth of work, between 1619 and 1865 during the end of slavery, the resolution estimates. But unlike the white enslavers, Bush notes, "those who were stripped of their dignity and made to work without compensation, they weren't repaid.
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