Welcome to Healing Black Futures, a podcast envisioning Black liberation and healing through economic justice, brought to you by Reparations4slavery.com. Hosted by herbalist Asia Dorsey, the podcast features interviews with people leading the liberatory path forward.
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A podcast on American experiences of institutional racism and the need for repair. Featuring oral histories and interviews. Brought to you by Reparations4slavery.com and the African American Redress Network, a collaboration between Howard and Columbia Universities.
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Reparations and Financial Justice: with Enith Williams of the Reparations Finance Lab
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36:15Financial justice is an important element of the movement for reparations, given this country’s history of slavery and the many years of Black codes and Jim Crow laws, which effectively blocked Black economic progress for generations. As a result, Black wealth is now just 1/10th that of white wealth. Now, financial advisors are developing reparativ…
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Reparations, Transportation and Infrastructure with Kristen Jeffers
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33:20Transportation and Infrastructure justice is an important element of the movement for reparations, given this country’s history of bisecting and destroying communities of color through the construction of highways, light rail and other transportation systems. Now, generations later, Black urbanists are bringing a reparative lens to urban planning t…
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Reparations, Liberation and Black Spiritual Traditions with Joy Tabernacle Kmt
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Reparations, Afro-Futurism and Housing Justice with Rasheedah Phillips of PolicyLink
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44:00Housing justice is an important element of the movement for reparations, given this country’s history of housing discrimination, including redlining, credit and appraisal fraud, blockbusting and many other discriminatory practices. Repairing what’s broken requires both an understanding of current housing policy as well as grounding in an afro-futur…
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Reparations & Food Justice with Damien Thompson of Frontline Farming
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48:50Food justice is an important element of the movement for reparations; it necessitates both access to land and economic redress in a variety of forms, given the historic connections much of our farmlands have to slavery, sharecropping and other injustices. Food justice includes redress for Black farmers, the development of urban agriculture projects…
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Episode 1 : Black Land Loss: Eminent Domain
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28:59Eminent domain refers to the power of the government to take private property and convert it into public use. The 5th amendment provides that the government may only exercise this power if just compensation is provided to the property owners. However eminent domain has been widely used to displace black communities - and black families commonly rec…
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One of the most common ways Black families lose their land is by coercion from nearby white landowners who use all white courts to their advantage. Today's episode features an interview with Dr. Betty Kilby Baldwin, author of two books on racial justice: “Wit, Will and Walls,” and “Cousins,” whose father's property was taken by a white farmer who h…
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Episode 3: Black Land Loss: Heir's Property Law
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51:40Heirs' property is a legal term for land that is owned by two or more people, usually with a common ancestor who has died without leaving a will. It is the leading cause of involuntary land loss among African Americans. Today's episode features an interview with Josh Walden, chief attorney with the Center for Heirs' Property Preservation in South C…
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