Advocates to gather for historic Reparations Summit

SCORES OF reparations advocates, Pan-Africanists and social justice activists from the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean will gather in New York City this week (April 9-12) for an historic Reparations Summit which will see the formal launch of the National African-American Reparations Commission (NAARC).

Among the participants will be leaders of national reparations commissions, committees and task forces from 11 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, led by Sir Hilary Beckles, chairman of the Caribbean Community’s Reparations Commission and including Jamaica’s Professor Verene Shepherd.

Both will deliver feature addresses at the three-day summit to be held across three of New York City’s five boroughs – Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Other keynote speakers include civil rights leader, Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Mireille Fanon, chair of the UN Working Group of Experts on Peoples of African Descent and daughter of Frantz Fanon, the Black liberation theoretician from Martinique.

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