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Reparations On Fire! Book Talk with Nkechi Taifa

Fri, Mar 17

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Sankofa Video, Books, & Café

Join us for a live book discussion with Nkechi Taifa in conversation with Maynard Henry, Esq on the Reparations Movement!

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Reparations On Fire! Book Talk with Nkechi Taifa
Reparations On Fire! Book Talk with Nkechi Taifa

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Mar 17, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Sankofa Video, Books, & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

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About the book:

Reparations on Fire describes history-in-the-making. It combines a historical survey and commentary on the Reparations Movement in America while addressing how pioneering reparations legislation is being born and debated in city council chambers and statehouses nationwide. It is part historical analysis, part revolutionary manifesto, and part political red-alert. Reparations on Fire brings additional value to the Reparations Movement as it goes about the necessary task of concretizing its goals and objectives and envisioning a future where Black freedom and joy can flourish. It describes how reparations went from being discussed in the radical margins of the Civil Rights Movement to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the General Assembly of the United Nations. It outlines how unsung Black Power activists such as Queen Mother Moore and Imari Obadele set the foundations for reparations to be championed by U.S. Rep John Conyers and, later, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee in the Congress…

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