Monday, June 22 began a two-part series focusing on the Fulton County Reparations Task Force’s Harm Report. The eye-opening, over 600-page report details the harms suffered by Black people who were enslaved or lived during the Jim Crow era. Among the findings were as much as $900 billion in today’s dollars in stolen labor over a decade of slavery in Fulton County. Click here to read the full report.

 

Guests:

Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado - Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and the Director of Public History and Historic Preservation at Morehouse College and chair of the Fulton Reparations Task Force

Dr. Amanda Meng - Georgia Tech research scientist who also serves as the task force secretary and representing Fulton County District 3

Ann Hill Bond - member Task Force Research Committee

John Wright - researcher

Monday, June 22 began a two-part series focusing on the Fulton County Reparations Task Force&rsquo;s Harm Report. The <a href="https://www.wabe.org/600-page-reparations-report-reveals-harms-across-a-decade-of-enslavement-in-fulton-county/">eye-opening, over 600-page report</a> details the harms suffered by Black people who were enslaved or lived during the Jim Crow era. Among the findings were as much as $900 billion in today&rsquo;s dollars in stolen labor over a decade of slavery in Fulton County. <a href="https://fultoncountyga.gov/reparationstaskforce">Click here</a> to read the full report.
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Guests:
<a href="https://morehouse.edu/directory/karcheik-sims-alvarado">Dr. Karcheik&nbsp;Sims-Alvarado</a> - Assistant Professor of Africana Studies&nbsp;and the Director of Public History and Historic Preservation at Morehouse College and chair of the Fulton Reparations Task Force
<a href="https://www.amandahmeng.com/">Dr. Amanda Meng</a> - Georgia Tech research scientist who also serves as the task force secretary and representing&nbsp;Fulton County District 3
<a href="https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/author/ann-hill-bond/">Ann Hill Bond</a> - member Task Force Research Committee
John Wright - researcher

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