Teaching and Listening
Reflecting on slavery's grim history of objectification
“I believe that the American descendants of enslaved people deserve reparations. Period. Just flat out deserve it,” says an Ohio politician.
"I saw a sea of young people who were charged as first-time felons, and I thought there's got to be some other way because if they take a plea, they’ve impacted their ability to earn.."
Before the love of my life passed away, he often said: “We are descendants of slaves. This is our house. We made it."
"There are so many people in the business community who ... don't understand capitalism," says a Civil Rights leader. "They think that in order for them to have more, the poor have to have less."
“If we step away from holding corporations accountable, then there’s a lot that we lose,” says a marketing executive who founded the Black Dollar Index.