Leid Stories - 06.01.21

TOPIC: STILL MISSING THE BOAT

 

▪︎Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va., quietly has been paying reparations to the descendants of blacks whose woefully unpaid and underpaid labor built the institution during slavery and Jim Crow years. Is that  enough?

 

▪︎100 years after the race war against the black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and several similar terror attacks against other black communities, has the U.S. government responded appropriately? Have black communities responded appropriately?