Reparations Summit in New York begins today
The Institute of the Black World is hosting a Reparations Summit in New York, April 9-12, 2015 . The Summit will begin at 7 pm this evening.
Inspired by CARICOM’s initiative for reparatory justice, the Congressional Black Caucus took a decision that a National African American Reparations Commission would be established as part of an effort to intensify the Reparations movement in the United States. A National Reparations Committee is also in the process of being established in Brazil and a European Network on Reparations has been formed. It is anticipated that there will be a hemispheric gathering of the reparations bodies from CARICOM, the United States, Brazil and Europe at the Reparations Summit in New York.
The Summit will include formal business sessions, a dialogue between leaders of the Caribbean Diaspora in the USA and the CARICOM Commission, meetings between the newly formed African American Commission and the CARICOM Commission; rallies in Harlem, Brooklyn; and a tribute to Congressman John Conyers, Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus and Sponsor of HR-40, the Reparations Study Bill.
Speakers at the conference include Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and chair of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Reparations Commission; civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, Prof. Charles Ogeltree of Harvard University and Mireille Fanon Mendes France, President of the Frantz Fanon Foundation and Chair of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African descent and daughter of Frantz Fanon, the Black liberation theoretician and psychiatrist from Martinique.
You may view the webcast of the event here