By: ShaCamree Gowdy The demand for “40 acres and a mule,” or reparations from the federal government for slavery, came about after the Civil War ended in 1865, per NBC News’ Michela Moscufo. While 11 cities have given written promise to develop local reparations initiatives, including Austin, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Denver, Colorado; and St. Louis, Missouri, no efforts to pay for slavery's acceptance has ever ended in a payout. RELATED: Jamaica Wants $10.6 Billion in Reparations From Britain for Atlantic Slave Trade Organizations like the Reparations Roundtable, Deepwaters.pool, Reparations Now, Reparations: Requests and Offerings, which has been around since 2015, and Coalition for Black Trans Economic […]
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