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The Recorder - My Turn: Meaningful reparations


My Turn: Meaningful reparations
Published: 6/2/2021 2:34:20 PM
Reparations do not change the past. The Oxford dictionary defines reparation as the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. Meriam-Webster adds that it offers the potential for giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury.
Reparations have meaning in the present and for the future.
The United States government offered reparation in the form of money to Native American tribes for seized land (notably doled out in parts by the government rather than entrusted in lump sums to tribes), in the form of land to Alaskan Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts, and first compensation for lost property of Japanese-Americans forced into internment camps in 1948 and finally $20,000 to each survivor in 1988 along with an apology. ....

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Stone Mountain Village to hold 1st Juneteenth celebration


Stone Mountain Village to hold 1st Juneteenth celebration
ZACHARY HANSEN, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
April 9, 2021
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FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2020, a massive mountainside carving depicting Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson is shown, in Stone Mountain, Ga. In the shadow of the world’s largest memorial to the Confederacy, the City of Stone Mountain will host its first-ever Juneteenth celebration this summer.Ron Harris/AP
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) In the shadow of the world’s largest memorial to the Confederacy, the City of Stone Mountain will host its first-ever Juneteenth celebration this summer.
City leaders hope the holiday event, which honors the end of slavery, will highlight and preserve the city’s Black history that often gets lost amid retellings of Ku Klux Klan meetings and clashes between activists and militia members. ....

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