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	<title>The Living Consequences &#187; Reparations</title>
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		<title>Quick Takes on Race, Privilege, and Inequality for Nov. 22, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Quick Takes&#8221; offers a mix of news, opinion, and research related to race, privilege, and inequality. Today&#8217;s &#8220;Quick Takes&#8221; includes the origins of &#8220;Kumbaya,&#8221; the politics of black hairstyles, the debate over the problem of race in our society, and one of the largest civil rights settlements in U.S. history. Readers are encouraged to share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.N. alters text for racism conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an important development in the controversy over next month&#8217;s U.N. conference on racism, negotiators have removed several controversial passages, including references to Israel, religious defamation, and reparations for slavery, from the draft conference text. This change follows a threat by the European Union to boycott the Durban Review Conference (also known as Durban II), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The battle over Hawaii&#8217;s apology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to rule on the issue of whether apologies issued to Hawaii give native Hawaiians a legal claim to lands seized in the 19th century. The Court will have to judge whether an apology was a mere statement of regret, or whether, even without additional language, the apology creates legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland considers slavery-era disclosure law</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/03/maryland-considers-slavery-era-disclosure-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The state of Maryland is currently considering a slavery-era disclosure law, similar to the one now pending in Massachusetts and previously adopted in several other states. The bill is sponsored by Maryland state senator Lisa Gladden (D-Baltimore), and was the subject of a hearing yesterday before the Senate Finance Committee in Annapolis. The legislation would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>H.R.40, the &#8220;Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/03/hr40-the-commission-to-study-reparation-proposals-for-african-americans-act/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/03/hr40-the-commission-to-study-reparation-proposals-for-african-americans-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has re-introduced H.R. 40, the &#8220;Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act,&#8221; for the 111th Congress. This legislation is enthusiastically supported by several DeWolf family members who appear in Traces of the Trade, and Rep. Conyers prominently mentioned our documentary when he introduced the bill. He is also a long-time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. expects to stay away from U.N. racism conference</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/03/us-expects-to-stay-away-from-un-racism-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, the State Department announced that the U.S. does not intend to participate in the U.N. conference on racism in April unless there are significant changes to the working draft of the conference document, including toning down references to reparations for slavery. This development appears to be the inevitable result of the Obama administration&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama ends boycott of U.N. racism conference</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/obama-ends-boycott-of-un-racism-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/obama-ends-boycott-of-un-racism-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has taken a key step to reverse the Bush administration&#8217;s long-standing boycott of the United Nations Conference Against Racism. This move is an early result of the Obama administration&#8217;s determination to engage more fully with the U.N. and other multilateral organizations. It is also a sign that the new U.S. administration has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France acknowledges role in Holocaust</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/france-acknowledges-role-in-holocaust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press is reporting that the French Conseil d&#8217;État (Council of State) has formally acknowledged France&#8217;s role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust in World War II. This is a case which is strongly reminiscent of how the U.S. continues to struggle with its own responsibility for American slavery and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts considers slavery-era disclosure law</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/massachusetts-considers-slavery-era-disclosure-law/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/massachusetts-considers-slavery-era-disclosure-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts state representative Byron Rushing has re-introduced his slavery-era disclosure law, &#8220;An Act Relative to the History of Slavery in the Commonwealth.&#8221; Rushing&#8217;s bill would require companies doing business with the state to research and report their connections to slavery (and those of any predecessor companies) prior to 1889. The secretary of state, in turn, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Peden&#8217;s Notes on the State of America</title>
		<link>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/ron-pedens-notes-on-the-state-of-america/</link>
		<comments>http://living.jdewperry.com/2009/02/ron-pedens-notes-on-the-state-of-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing to highlight a book by Ron Peden, entitled Notes on the State of America: Black to the Future, or White from the Past? (Cambridge, Mass.: OAU Publishing, 2008). Ron is a writer and activist here in the Boston area, and he has graciously taken the time to comment on this blog regarding his [...]]]></description>
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