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Sec. 17155.5 [Reparations for World War Ii Injustices] |
Payroll Management Guide (NO Date) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Gross income does not include any amount received as reparation payments paid by the German Foundation known as Remembrance, Responsibility, and the Future, or any other source of humanitarian reparations made for purposes of redressing the injustice done to persons who were required to perform slave or forced labor during World War II. (As added... |
2020 |
| James Bikales |
Sheila Jackson Lee Presses Congress to Pass Reparations Bill at Dc March |
The Hill (8/28/2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday used her speech at a march in Washington to call on Congress to pass her bill to study paying reparations to Black Americans. |
2020 |
| S. Thomas Perry |
Slavery, Jim Crow, and Mass Incarceration: Could the Thirteenth Amendment Hold the Key to Racial Equity in Criminal Justice? |
88 George Washington Law Review Arguendo 225 (December, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The United States incarcerates people at a higher rate than any other country on Earth. Within the U.S., Black people--particularly at the state level--are incarcerated at disproportionately high rates relative to the total population, the rate at which white people are incarcerated, and crime rates overall. Consequently, Black Americans also... |
2020 |
| Elizabeth L. Rosenblatt |
Social Justice and Copyright's Excess |
6 Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 5 (10/1/2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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My life is real. So when I hear about an editor asking: What's up with my output? I'm like: What's up with you even commenting on my life? Niggas don't know my life. That's the bourgeoisie approach that I get offended by because this ain't no bubble. This ain't no vacuum we doing this music out of. That's why people connect to the pain in it.... |
2020 |
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Stang V. Union for Reform Judaism |
--- F.Supp.3d ---- (Docket Number 20 C 757) (8/18/2020) |
Cases |
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TORTS Defamation. Allegedly defamatory statements written by official of Jewish nonprofit could be interpreted as referring to someone other than Jewish lawyers. |
2020 |
| Rebecca Klar |
Steyer Endorses Reparations Bill, Commits to Working with Jackson Lee |
The Hill (7/27/2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Former Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer on Monday endorsed legislation sponsored by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) that would fund a committee to explore whether Black Americans should receive reparations for slavery. |
2020 |
| Dalié Jiménez , Jonathan D. Glater |
Student Debt Is a Civil Rights Issue: the Case for Debt Relief and Higher Education Reform |
55 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 131 (Winter, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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For an ever-growing number of students aspiring to higher education, borrowing is essential. Yet the burdens of indebtedness disproportionally harm Black and Latinx students. Debt also undermines the meaning and effect of higher education access, enabling many who borrow to reach the middle class but still limiting possibilities relative to... |
2020 |
| David A. Hall |
Ten Years Fighting Hate |
10 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 79 (Spring, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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On October 28, 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (the Act). One of the goals of the Act was to broaden protections against crimes motivated by hatred for a person's group membership (her perceived race, national origin, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation,... |
2020 |
| Shuangge Wen , Jingchen Zhao |
The Bumpy Road of Home States' Regulation of Globalized Businesses-- Legal and Institutional Disruptions to Supply Chain Disclosure under the Modern Slavery Act |
69 Catholic University Law Review 125 (Winter, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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I. Introduction. 126 II. Regulatory Challenges brought about by Global Outsourcing. 132 A. Global Outsourcing and Resulting Discrepancies between the Corporate and Legal Worlds. 132 B. Economic Integration Complications in Supply Chains. 134 C. Home State Regulatory Developments in Response to Global Outsourcing. 135 III. Regulatory Interaction and... |
2020 |
| Fred O. Smith, Jr. |
The Constitution after Death |
120 Columbia Law Review 1471 (October, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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From mandating separate and unequal gravesites, to condoning mutilation after lynchings, to engaging in cover-ups after wrongful police shootings, governmental actors have often degraded dignity in death. This Article offers an account of the constitutional law of the dead and takes aim at a legal rule that purports to categorically exclude the... |
2020 |
| Leigh Creighton Bond, Monika Taliaferro |
The Continued Rise of the Reproductive Justice Lawyer |
23 Chapman Law Review 299 (Spring, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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I. Introduction. 299 II. A Brief History of Reproductive Justice Lawyering. 303 A. Before Roe. 305 B. After Roe and the Coining of Reproductive Justice. 310 III. Importance of Women Voters and Voter Suppression. 312 A. How Women Voted: The 1920 Presidential Election. 312 B. The 1992 Presidential Election. 316 C. The 2018 Presidential Election. 321... |
2020 |
| Jordan M. Jennings |
The Disappearing Act: How to Prevent the Decline of Black Farmers in the United States |
12 Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Law 325 (2019-2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Tensions between the United States, China, Mexico, and Canada have placed U.S. farmers in a difficult position. The Trump administration's restrictions on trade will likely have considerable implications for the United States' agricultural industry. The tariffs center on the exports of soy, wheat, corn, and other crops, and would potentially total... |
2020 |
| Kemeng Fan |
The Judicial Remedy's Unfulfilled Potential: Curing the Pain of Historical Atrocities in the South Korean-japanese Context |
33 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 461 (Summer, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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With a nearly nuclear-capable North Korea and the increasingly assertive China and Russia, Northeast Asia has long been a place of crucial strategic concern for the United States. But at this moment, Japan and South Korea--two of the most critical U.S. allies in the region--are fighting against each other. Ever since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo... |
2020 |
| Luke Herrine |
The Law and Political Economy of a Student Debt Jubilee |
68 Buffalo Law Review 281 (April, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The notion of a student debt jubilee has begun its march from the margin of policy debates to the center, yet scholarly debate on the value of canceling student debt is negligible. This article attempts to jump start such debate in part by presenting a novel policy proposal for implementing a jubilee. In addition to reviewing the history of student... |
2020 |
| Michael Burger , Jessica Wentz , Radley Horton |
The Law and Science of Climate Change Attribution |
45 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 57 |
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I. Introduction. 60 II. Scientific Underpinnings. 64 A. Core Concepts and Terminology. 66 1. Scope of Detection and Attribution Research. 66 2. Data Sources and Analytical Techniques. 69 a. Climate Change, Extreme Event, and Impact Attribution. 69 b. Special Considerations for Extreme Event and Impact Attribution. 73 c. Source Attribution. 75 B.... |
2020 |
| Jack Davis |
The Public Use of Reparations: How Land-based Reparations Can Satisfy the Public Use Requirement of the Takings Clause |
104 Minnesota Law Review 2105 (April, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Emancipation, one of our nation's boldest and most morally profound acts, rested upon the hope that a dramatic reconception of property would take root. Almost four million African Americans gained the rights and remedies of personhood, no longer to be property. This transformation also carried with it one of our nation's most enduring property... |
2020 |
| Chantal Thomas |
The Struggle Against Empire Continues: Reflections on Migration as Decolonization |
72 Stanford Law Review Online 53 (January, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Migration as Decolonization telegraphs the essence of a postcolonial approach to the assertion of sovereign territorial exclusion. Tendayi Achiume's concept of de-imperial migration clarifies and enhances a set of important critiques and should justly impact not just legal scholarship but also broader public discourse. One of the article's most... |
2020 |
| Michael A. Lawrence |
The Thirteenth Amendment as Basis for Racial Truth & Reconciliation |
62 Arizona Law Review 637 (Fall, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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[This is] a country whose existence was predicated on the torture of black fathers, on the rape of black mothers, on the sale of black children .. Having been enslaved for 250 years, black people were not left to their own devices [after slavery ended]. They were terrorized. In the Deep South, a second slavery ruled. In the North, legislatures,... |
2020 |
| Patricia M. Muhammad |
The U.s. Reparations Debate: Where Do We Go from Here? |
44 Harbinger 43 (2/5/2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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A few years ago, I watched a news segment in which Representative Conyers discussed HR 40, a bill that proposes to study the vestiges of slavery and the disparate impact that poverty and institutionalized discrimination has on those considered part of the African Diaspora. Since his resignation (tendered in the wake of sexual harassment... |
2020 |
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Third Amended Complaint |
United States District Court, N.D. Illinois., Eastern Division (Docket Number No. 18-CV-8513.) (5/14/2020) |
Trial Court Documents |
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FN* University of Chicago Law students provided substantial assistance in the preparation of this document. NOW COMES Plaintiff, COREY BATCHELOR, by his attorneys, LOEVY & LOEVY and the... |
2020 |
| K-Sue Park |
This Land Is Not Our Land |
87 University of Chicago Law Review 1977 (October, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The story of our relationship to the earth is written more truthfully on the land than on the page. It lasts there. The land remembers what we said and what we did. -Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass 341 (Milkweed 2013) The land and the wealth that began in it still carry the shape of history .. The land remembers. But what do we remember... |
2020 |
| Liane Jackson |
Truth and Reparations |
106-MAY ABA Journal 9 (April/May, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Reparations is having a moment--400 years after the U.S. slave trade began, 157 years following the Emancipation Proclamation and 56 years post-Jim Crow. Although state-sanctioned discrimination is over, those who support reparations say the compounding damage remains from past atrocities never redressed. These days, whispering reparations is no... |
2020 |
| Monika Batra Kashyap |
U.s. Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and the Racially Disparate Impacts of Covid-19 |
11 California Law Review Online 517 (November, 2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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This Essay contextualizes the racially disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 in the United States within a framework of settler colonialism in order to broaden the understanding of how structural inequality is produced, imposed, and maintained. A settler colonialism framework recognizes that the United States is a present-day settler colonial... |
2020 |
| J.M. Kirby, René Urueña |
Understanding Threats Against Afro-descendant Women Human Rights Defenders: Re-envisioning Security |
4 Columbia Human Rights Law Review Online 324 (11/20/2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Colombia has the highest rate of assassinations of human rights defenders in Latin America, and women defending Afro-descendant and Indigenous territories are particularly at risk. Threatened Afro-descendant women defenders observe that the wave of violence against them, including femicide and rape, is designed to silence them, control their... |
2020 |
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United Kingdom 2019 Human Rights Report |
USDS (3/11/2020) |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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2020 |
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United States V. Cottman |
807 Fed.Appx. 204, United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. (Docket Number 18-4794) (3/23/2020) |
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE Evidence. Testimony that defendant named her business 40 AM Tax Service because it stood for 40 Acres and a Mule as admissible. |
2020 |
| Lucius T. Outlaw III |
Unsecured (Black) Bodies: How Baltimore Foreshadows the Dangers of Racially Targeted Dragnet Policing Let Loose by Utah V. Strieff |
50 New Mexico Law Review 25 (Winter, 2020) |
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The Court today holds that the discovery of a warrant for an unpaid parking ticket will forgive a police officer's violation of your Fourth Amendment rights. With this sentence, Justice Sonia Sotomayor unleashes a fierce admonishment of the majority opinion (drafted by Justice Clarence Thomas) in Utah v. Strieff and the majority's lack of... |
2020 |
| Kathleen Bicek Bezdichek, J.D. |
Validity, Construction, and Application of § 6700 of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.s.c.a. § 6700) Imposing Civil Penalties for Promoting Abusive Tax Shelters |
36 American Law Reports ALR Federal 2d 377 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The promotion of abusive tax shelters has wide-reaching effects in our society, including the liability of taxpayers who rely on the promoters' false or fraudulent tax advice, dissipation of the courts' time by continual litigation over frivolous theories, and loss of tax revenues to the government. Section 6700 of the Internal Revenue Code (I.R.C.... |
2020 |
| Kalen Coleman |
Wake up or Get Woke: the Paradox of America's Diplomatic Export of Hip Hop |
43 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal 59 (Winter, 2021) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Since 2001, the United States has been sending hip hop artists overseas to perform and promote American culture. But hip hop began in the South Bronx of New York City, driven by disaffected and impoverished African American youth who gave voice to their discontent. There is an inherent hypocrisy in the appropriation and export of a subculture whose... |
2020 |
| Brandon Hasbrouck |
White Saviors |
77 Washington and Lee Law Review Online 47 (7/15/2020) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, cause they knew death was better than bondage. I am an assistant professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law. I am a tenure-track faculty member. I am Black. Two of my Black colleagues, Cary Martin Shelby and Carliss Chatman, endorse my entire statement below in... |
2020 |
| Theresa Zhen |
(Color)blind Reform: How Ability-to-pay Determinations Are Inadequate to Transform a Racialized System of Penal Debt |
43 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 175 (2019) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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As economic sanctions imposed with a criminal conviction proliferate nationwide, reformers have fought for and won the institutionalization of ability-to-pay determinations. While often viewed as a victory in the effort to end the criminalization of poverty, there is a substantial risk that ability-to-pay determinations may actually exacerbate the... |
2019 |
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18.43. International Relations; Aliens |
West's West's ALR Digest class=key">18.43" (December 2019) |
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2019 |
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8. Federal Preemption |
West's West's ALR Digest class=key">8" (December 2019) |
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2019 |
| Shavonda..." |
2018 Nj A.b. 5968 (Ns) |
2018 New Jersey Assembly Bill No. 5968, New Jersey Two Hundred Eighteenth Legislature - Second Annual Session (11/18/2019) |
Legislation (Proposed & Enacted) |
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SUMMARY: Establishes New Jersey Reparations Task Force." ASSEMBLY |
2019 |
| Ronald..." |
2018 Nj S.b. 4261 (Ns) |
2018 New Jersey Senate Bill No. 4261, New Jersey Two Hundred Eighteenth Legislature - Second Annual Session (11/18/2019) |
Legislation (Proposed & Enacted) |
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SUMMARY: Establishes New Jersey Reparations Task Force." SENATE |
2019 |
| Weber |
2019 ca A.c.r. 130 (Ns) |
2019 California Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 130, California 2019-2020 Regular Session (8/19/2019) |
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SUMMARY: Relative to African descendants of slaves in the United States. CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE--2019-20 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 130 Introduced by Assembly Member Weber (Coauthors: Assembly Members Burke, Cooper, Gipson, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Kamlager-Dove, and McCarty) (Coauthors: Senators Bradford and Mitchell) August 19, 2019 Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 130--Relative to African descendants of slaves in the United States. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST ACR 130, as introduced, Weber. African descendants of slaves in the United States. This measure would... |
2019 |
| Weber |
2019 ca A.c.r. 130 (Ns) |
2019 California Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 130, California 2019-2020 Regular Session (9/26/2019) |
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SUMMARY: Relative to African descendants of slaves in the United States. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 130 RESOLUTION CHAPTER 176 Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 130--Relative to African descendants of slaves in the United States. [Filed with Secretary of State September 26, 2019.] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST ACR 130, Weber. African descendants of slaves in the United States. This measure would recognize the need to pursue avenues to implement proposed reparations for the descendants of African slaves in the United States. The measure would further recognize August 2019 as marking 400... |
2019 |
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2019 ca A.c.r. 130 (Ns) |
2019 California Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 130, California 2019-2020 Regular Session (9/13/2019) |
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SUMMARY: African descendants of slaves in the United States Introduced by Assembly Member Weber (Coauthors: Assembly Members Burke, Cooper, Gipson, Holden, Jones-Sawyer, Kamlager-Dove, and McCarty, Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Bauer-Kahan, Berman, Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Bonta, Calderon, Carrillo, Chau, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cunningham, Daly, Diep, Eggman, Frazier, Friedman, Gabriel, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gloria, Gonzalez, Gray, Grayson, Irwin, Kalra, Lackey, Levine, Low, Maienschein, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, O'Donnell, Petrie-Norris, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Rendon, Reyes,... |
2019 |
| Gonzalez, McCarty, and Weber |
2019 ca A.j.r. 21 (Ns) |
2019 California Assembly Joint Resolution No. 21, California 2019-2020 Regular Session (6/19/2019) |
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SUMMARY: Relative to reparations for descendants of enslaved persons. CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE--2019-20 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Joint Resolution No. 21 Introduced by Assembly Members Gonzalez, McCarty, and Weber June 19, 2019 Assembly Joint Resolution No. 21--Relative to reparations for descendants of enslaved persons. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AJR 21, as introduced, Gonzalez. Reparations for descendants of enslaved persons. This measure would formally apologize for California's past complicity in enabling and furthering the practice of slavery and would urge the United States Congress and... |
2019 |
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2019 Cong Us Hr 40 |
116th CONGRESS, 1st Session (1/3/2019) |
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To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes. Ms. Jackson Lee (for herself, Mr. Serrano, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Khanna,... |
2019 |
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2019 Cong Us Hres 702 |
116th CONGRESS, 1st Session (11/14/2019) |
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Recognizing that the United States has a moral obligation to meet its foundational promise of guaranteed justice for all. Ms. Pressley submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary Recognizing that the United States has a moral obligation to meet its foundational promise of guaranteed justice for all. Whereas the United States has an incarceration crisis that has destabilized millions of Americans, caused intergenerational harm and trauma to families, decimated entire communities, and disproportionately impacted communities of color, particularly... |
2019 |
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2019 Cong Us S 1083 |
116th CONGRESS, 1st Session (4/9/2019) |
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To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes. Mr. Booker introduced the following bill; which was read twice... |
2019 |
| House, Rep. Carol Ammons |
2019 Il H.j.r. 90 (Ns) |
2019 Illinois House Joint Resolution No. 90, Illinois One Hundred First General Assembly - First Regular Session (10/29/2019) |
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SUMMARY: Urges recognition of Illinois' vibrant history of African American political struggles for democracy and freedom that have widened the scope and deepened the State's and United States' commitment to democracy and racial justice. Urges adequate appropriations for investigations, research, publication, and a website to represent Illinois' contribution to widening and deepening the State's and the United States' commitment to racial justice in memorializing Illinois Recognition of the 1619 Project:Year of Return. Urges adequate appropriations for the development of a comprehensive... |
2019 |
| House, Rep. Carol Ammons-Jehan Gordon-Booth-LaToya Greenwood-La Shawn K. Ford-Sonya M. Harper, Camille Y. Lilly, Will Guzzardi, Andre Thapedi, Mark L. Walker, Rita Mayfield, William Davis, Marcus C. Evans, Jr., Nicholas K. Smith and Maurice A. West, II |
2019 Il H.j.r. 90 (Ns) |
2019 Illinois House Joint Resolution No. 90, Illinois One Hundred First General Assembly - First Regular Session (11/12/2019) |
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SUMMARY: Urges recognition of Illinois' vibrant history of African American political struggles for democracy and freedom that have widened the scope and deepened the State's and United States' commitment to democracy and racial justice. Urges adequate appropriations for investigations, research, publication, and a website to represent Illinois' contribution to widening and deepening the State's and the United States' commitment to racial justice in memorializing Illinois Recognition of the 1619 Project:Year of Return. Urges adequate appropriations for the development of a comprehensive... |
2019 |
| House, Rep. Carol Ammons-Jehan Gordon-Booth-LaToya Greenwood-La Shawn K. Ford-Sonya M. Harper, Camille Y. Lilly, Will Guzzardi, Andre Thapedi, Mark L. Walker, Rita Mayfield, William Davis, Marcus C. Evans, Jr., Nicholas K. Smith and Maurice A. West, II |
2019 Il H.j.r. 90 (Ns) |
2019 Illinois House Joint Resolution No. 90, Illinois One Hundred First General Assembly - First Regular Session (11/13/2019) |
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SUMMARY: Urges recognition of Illinois' vibrant history of African American political struggles for democracy and freedom that have widened the scope and deepened the State's and United States' commitment to democracy and racial justice. Urges adequate appropriations for investigations, research, publication, and a website to represent Illinois' contribution to widening and deepening the State's and the United States' commitment to racial justice in memorializing Illinois Recognition of the 1619 Project:Year of Return. Urges adequate appropriations for the development of a comprehensive... |
2019 |
| House, Rep. Carol Ammons |
2019 Il H.r. 615 (Ns) |
2019 Illinois House Resolution No. 615, Illinois One Hundred First General Assembly - First Regular Session (11/13/2019) |
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SUMMARY: Mourns the death of former U.S. Representative John Conyers. HOUSE RESOLUTION WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of former U.S. Representative John James Conyers Jr.; and WHEREAS, Rep. Conyers was born in Highland Park, Michigan on May 16, 1929 and grew up in Detroit; he attended Wayne State University, where he received both his undergraduate and law degrees; he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War as part of a unit of African-American combat engineers; and WHEREAS, Rep. Conyers became a civil rights activist and... |
2019 |
| House, Rep. Carol Ammons |
2019 Il H.r. 615 (Ns) |
2019 Illinois House Resolution No. 615, Illinois One Hundred First General Assembly - First Regular Session (11/14/2019) |
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SUMMARY: Mourns the death of former U.S. Representative John Conyers. HOUSE RESOLUTION WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of former U.S. Representative John James Conyers Jr.; and WHEREAS, Rep. Conyers was born in Highland Park, Michigan on May 16, 1929 and grew up in Detroit; he attended Wayne State University, where he received both his undergraduate and law degrees; he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War as part of a unit of African-American combat engineers; and WHEREAS, Rep. Conyers became a civil rights activist and... |
2019 |
| Barron, Charles |
2019 Ny A.b. 3080 (Ns) |
2019 New York Assembly Bill No. 3080, New York Two Hundred Forty-Second Legislative Session (1/28/2019) |
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SUMMARY: Establishes the New York state community commission on reparations remedies; makes an appropriation of $250,000. STATE OF NEW YORK _ 3080 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2019 _ Introduced by M. of A. BARRON, PRETLOW, WRIGHT, DICKENS, AUBRY, WALKER, BLAKE, WILLIAMS, RICHARDSON, CRESPO, SOLAGES, PICHARDO, ARROYO, RODRI- GUEZ, MOSLEY, PEOPLES-STOKES, COOK, RIVERA, DE LA ROSA, PERRY, VANEL, TITUS, HYNDMAN, CAHILL, GANTT, JEAN-PIERRE, BICHOTTE, TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the... |
2019 |
| Barron, Charles |
2019 Ny A.b. 3080 (Ns) |
2019 New York Assembly Bill No. 3080, New York Two Hundred Forty-Second Legislative Session (3/26/2019) |
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SUMMARY: BARRON, PRETLOW, WRIGHT, DICKENS, AUBRY, WALKER, BLAKE, WILLIAMS, RICHARDSON, CRESPO, SOLAGES, PICHARDO, ARROYO, RODRIGUEZ, MOSLEY, PEOPLES-STOKES, COOK, RIVERA, DE LA ROSA, PERRY, VANEL, TITUS, HYNDMAN, CAHILL, GANTT, JEAN-PIERRE, BICHOTTE, TAYLOR, JAFFEE, D'URSO, DILAN Relates to acknowledging the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the city of New York and the state of New York; establishing the commission to study reparations for African-Americans and to recommend remedies to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto... |
2019 |
| Sanders, Jr., James |
2019 Ny S.b. 2904 (Ns) |
2019 New York Senate Bill No. 2904, New York Two Hundred Forty-Second Legislative Session (1/30/2019) |
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SUMMARY: SANDERS, PARKER, SEPULVEDA Relates to acknowledging the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the city of New York and the state of New York; establishes the commission to study reparations for African-Americans and to recommend remedies to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, the impact of these forces on living African-Americans and to make recommendations on appropriate remedies; makes an appropriation therefor; and provides for the repeal of such... |
2019 |