Reparations Now! The Study has been done!

Today the demand for reparations is being debated on the streets of the U.S., in the media, in Congress and by U.S. presidential candidates. How did reparations become a household word? The demand for reparations to African people goes back to the days of slavery and has long been advocated by historians and activists. In 1982 the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) organized and conducted a World Tribunal on Reparations for Black People. Since then, the APSP and the Uhuru (Freedom) Movement have held 11 more Tribunals in cities across the country gathering evidence and testimony to support the Reparations claim. They have taken to the streets in protest marches demanding reparations. They have built non-profit businesses and political campaigns winning voluntary reparations contributed from individual white community members.

Burning Spear Media has just re-released this 30-minute radio documentary that was produced on the 1982 Reparations Tribunal, shortly after it was held in NYC. It features excerpts from statements by the People's Advocate Chairman Omali Yeshitela, and moving testimony from Afeni Shakur, member of the NYC Panther 21 and mother of the rapper Tupac; Leonard Jeffries, a former professor of Black Studies at the City College of New York; Mafundi Lake, former political prisoner held in Alabama’s notorious Atmore-Holman prison; Job Mashariki, Black Veterans for Social Justice; Akil Al-Jundi, prisoner advocate and survivor of the 1971 Attica massacre; Professor Del Hunter, Medgar Evars College and Ebun Adelona, black community health care advocate

For more information and additional material on the reparations issue, contact Burning Spear Media at 727-824-5700 or visit theburningspear.com.

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