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Conversation Reparations: Tribute To Reparations Advocate Rep. John Conyers
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English - November 05, 2019 01:22 - 59 minutes - 53.3 MB - ★★★★ - 129 ratingsNews news politics africa african american black american afro-american Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
John Conyers Jr was born May 16, 1929, and died on October 27, 2019 (aged 90). Conyers was a Korean War Veteran, civil rights activist, a Progressive who supported Single-Payer Healthcare (Medicare For All), stood against regime changes wars, religious bigotry and was a staunch supporter of whistleblowers and spoke against the prosecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Conyers was a staunch long-time advocate for Reparations for the descendants of victims of slavery and introduced Reparations bills into Congress back when few were discussing the issue."My bill does four things: It acknowledges the fundamental injustice and inhumanity of slavery; It establishes a commission to study slavery, its subsequent racial and economic discrimination against freed slaves; It studies the impact of those forces on today's living African Americans; and the commission would then make recommendations to Congress on appropriate remedies to redress the harm inflicted on living African Americans." - Rep. John Conyers JrJohn Conyers Jr. was one of the longest-serving members of the US House of Representatives from January 3, 1965 – December 5, 2017.