reparations
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Serge Letchimy, an official from Martinique, in an open letter to Macron earlier this month also demanded reparations.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
"Now we need to go beyond the symbolic," he said, urging a "real reparations programme", including for example more funds for educational projects to transmit history and help battle systemic racism.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
The disgraced tycoon is serving a life sentence for embezzling from a major Vietnamese bank and has been ordered to return $27bn in reparations.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
She was chair of the Legislative Black Caucus and authored a bill that created a reparations task force, restricted when police can use deadly force and made ethnic studies mandatory for California State University students.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
The German people also had to pay an enormous sum of money, called reparations, for war damages.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
