Congressman John Conyers

Juneteenth Reparations Hearing on H.R. 40 Puts Reparations Debate in National Spotlight

Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire ContributorJune 27, 2019

“These are the vestiges of enslavement that people don’t want to deal with,” said Dr. Julianne Malveaux, the former President of Bennett College.

Larry Aubry Opinion

Confronting Academia’s Ties to Slavery and Reparations

Larry AubryFebruary 28, 2019

Reparations for the descendants of African slaves has been talked about ad infinitum, yet there has been virtually no legislative action taken to make this happen. (Congressman John Conyers could not even to get a reparations bill out of committee for more than twenty years—to simply do a study on reparations.) Today’s column summarizes a “major” conference at Harvard University about slavery, universities and reparations. A New York Times article by Jennifer Schussler, Confronting Academia’s Ties to Slavery, recaps the conference.

Family Lifestyle News (Family)Opinion WENDY'S WINDOW

Wendy’s Window: The Struggle is Still Real

Wendy GladneyJanuary 17, 2019

When I first started my event planning business over a quarter of a century ago, one of my favorite clients was working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). I was originally hired by Genethia Hudley Hayes who was the executive director at the time. She wanted me to come in and help with what was known as “King Week.”