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BACKING UP THE DEMAND FOR REPARATIONS: Reflections....

Posted by H. Khalif Khalifah on June 1, 2010 at 12:06pm

BACKING UP THE DEMAND FOR REPARATIONS:

REFLECTIONS AND THOUGHTS IN PREPARATION

FOR THE ANNUAL N’COBRA CONFERENCE

By H. Khalif Khalifah

MAY 31, 2010

SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA - The dynamic word within the Great Issue of Reparations is DEMAND. Demand implies that if you don’t receive a positive response there will be consequences for the Nation that the demand is made on. In short, not caring about consequences is the basic reason why “the powers that be,” are turning a deaf eat to the great work of

National Conference Slated for New Orleans

Posted by Brotha Lukata on May 20, 2010 at 7:03pm

N'COBRA National Conference 2010

June 25-27, 2010

Frederick Douglass High Schoool

3820 St. Claude Avenue

New Orleans, LA 70117

hosted by the New Orleans Chapter of N'COBRA

ncobra_no2@hotmail.com

504.324.2370 or 504.361.3089

Friday, 25 June 2010

9:00am – 10:30am

Ancestral Acknowledgment (ceremony at Reynes Street on Riverfront)

11:00am (tentative; exact time & place TBA)

Press Conference

12:00pm (Conference Site Registration begins)

12:00pm – 3:00pm

National Board of Directors Meeting

3:30pm – 5:00pm

Opening Ple

Get to Work after the Spiritual Upliftment

Posted by Brotha Lukata on March 13, 2010 at 11:00am

I spent 15 hours with some of the most enthusiastic Community-level Repair/Reparations Advocates that I has been around in quite a while. During the Southeast Regional 2010 Convention, February 19th & 20th in Atlanta, GA, for a moment I thought the revolution was on! For me, it was both entertaining and educational (Edutaining). The presenters were powerful and the performers were dramatic. Only thing more we could have asked for was for more to gather with us in the name of our struggle. But I

N’COBRA Northeast Region and historical society establishes a collaboration for racial healing

Posted by Ari Merretazon on November 30, 2009 at 1:33am

N’COBRA Northeast Region and historical society establishes a collaboration for racial healingby Ari MerrretazonIf you missed the N'COBRA's November 20th REOS (Reparations Education and Organizational Spotlight) at the Cliveden Museum House in Philadelphia , believe me someone you know was there. It was a day of recognition, education, and the official signing of the memorandum of understanding between the national Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America , known as N'COBRA, and the Clived

Activists want regulations on Cliveden House history

Posted by Ari Merretazon on August 14, 2009 at 11:02pm

Written by Robert HightowerThursday, 13 August 2009 22:59 Philadelphia TribuneLocal activists want to have a say in how officials at the Cliveden House educates the public about the history of the estate.After endless digging and research by the members of the Cliveden of the National Trust, papers detailing the trade and ownership of slaves by the house’s owner, Benjamin Chew, were recently discovered.Members of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America sat down with officials

Reparations Accord for Blacks in America

Posted by Ari Merretazon on July 27, 2009 at 4:47pm

What is it?An agreement between representatives of the reparations movement and the U.S. Congress, and others, to settle the long standing reparations dispute in the form of agreed upon payment forms and methods.Legal DefinitionAn accord being a contract, the requirements of mutual assent and consideration must be made. An agreement whereby one of the parties undertakes to give or perform, and other to accept, in satisfaction of liquidated or disputed claim arising in contract or tort something

Congressional apologies are not enough, reparations accord for Blacks is needed, now!

Posted by Ari Merretazon on June 30, 2009 at 6:30pm

For Immediate ReleaseNational Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA)Contact:Ari S. Merretazon, Northeast Regional Representative; 215-850-1699merretazon@verizon.netBarbara Baker, Midwest Regional Representative 312-720-0648Bbaker601@att.netKamm Howard, Board Member At Large, 773-520-0369khoward.amenta@sbcglobal.netCongressional apologies are not enough, reparations accord for Blacks is needed, now!We don’t think it is coincidental that, at the same time the National Coalition o

Black History, R. I. P.?

Posted by Ari Merretazon on May 13, 2009 at 9:30am

by Dr. Pamela D. ReedNow that Barack Obama is President of the United States, why don't we just pretend that America wasn't built on slaveholding?If the spate of recent "post-racial" articles suggesting that we need no longer commemorate the African American struggle for freedom and equality in this country is any indication, this seems to be where we're heading.This is a classic case of the phenomenon called selective history/memory, or as some have termed it, historical amnesia.We've been bomb

The gun and ship of enslavement

Posted by Ari Merretazon on April 14, 2009 at 11:30am

The gun and ship of enslavement["Like a machine it transformed the lives of Africans and Europeans alike. Europeans came to America freely with a design of a new way of life in their hearts and minds." Africans were kidnapped and shipped in chains with their life design already made, in the hearts and minds of Europeans. So terrifying was this technology that it forced Africans to worship Christianity/Jesus Christ."]The ruling classes of Western Europe were able to conquer the world between 1400

Closing the circle of abolition and restitution with reparations:

Posted by Ari Merretazon on April 7, 2009 at 10:42pm in Commentery

Closing the circle of abolition and restitution with reparations:Corrective economic justiceBy Minister Ari S. Merretazon, M.S.CEDBritain abolished the slave trade 200 years ago. Its landmarks are an abiding legacy of cruelty. Before the 18th century, very few White men and women questioned the morality of slavery as it was public policy. The Quakers were among these few. However, it was the Black resistance and rebellions that destroyed chattel slavery. Abolitionists facilitated and resourced t

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BACKING UP THE DEMAND FOR REPARATIONS: Reflections....

National Conference Slated for New Orleans

Get to Work after the Spiritual Upliftment

N’COBRA Northeast Region and historical society establishes a collaboration for racial healing

Activists want regulations on Cliveden House history

Reparations Accord for Blacks in America

Congressional apologies are not enough, reparations accord for Blacks is needed, now!

Black History, R. I. P.?

The gun and ship of enslavement

Closing the circle of abolition and restitution with reparations:

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