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Collected Item: “Reparations in America”

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Reparations in America

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Instagram

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"Reparations is very important. Here in America, Black women are saddled with the highest amount of student debt in the country. For Black women in Boston, their median net worth is $8. In Los Angeles, the median value of assets for Black families is $200. In St. Paul, according to ISIAH, Blacks are 120% more unemployed than their white counterparts." - Trahern Crews

Protestors gathered at the Minnesota Governor's Residence on August 16th to demand the United States government pay reparations to American Descendants of Slavery for 400 years of slavery, redlining, lynching, mass incarceration, and discrimination in education, housing, and employment.

Photos from Reparations Rally In Honor of George Floyd, August 16, 2020

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reparations, America, Black women, student debt, economy, protest, American Descendants of Slavery, redlining, lynching, mass incarceration, discrimination, housing, education, employment

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CECD1sOHWQk/

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Drew Arrieta @itsdrw

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2020-08-18
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