It's been more than a month since a dozen civil rights and religious groups say they sent a letter to the White House calling on Pres. Biden sign an executive order to study reparations by Juneteenth.
Reparations activists outside new art installation calling on President Joe Biden to sign an executive order on reparations in Washington.It's been more than a month since a dozen civil rights and religious groups say they sent a letter to the White House calling on President Joe Biden sign an executive order to study reparations by Juneteenth, or this Sunday, June 19, marking the emancipation of enslaved African Americans.
The installation on the Ellipse includes a giant Pan-African flag, made of red, black, and green flowers alongside mulch provided by Black farmers -- what activists say is a visual reminder of the need for reparations. However, a reminder of the centuries-old promise has languished in Congress for decades. H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, has been introduced in every legislative session since 1989.
H.R. 40 passed out of the House Judiciary Committee in 2021 but has failed to come to a vote in the House or Senate. MORE: California vote to limit reparations makes eligibility difficult, narrows slavery’s impact, experts say Nkechi Taifa, center, speaks at Vote For Justice: An Evening of Empowerment with activists and artists at the Newseum, May 9, 2018, in Washington.Nkechi Taifa is director of the Reparation Education Project, and has been calling for reparations for moire than 50 years. In 1987, she was one of the founders of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America , an organization that worked closely with Democratic Rep. John Conyers to draft the introduction of H.R. 40 in 1989.
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