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By InnerKwest – Haiti Historian – August 20, 2025 Two hundred years after France forced the world’s first Black republic to pay for its own freedom, Haiti faces a new bill—this time in the currency of sovereignty. In mid-August 2025, Blackwater founder Erik Prince said his new company, Vectus Global, has a 10-year deal with Haiti’s interim authorities: first to fight …
From InnerKwest’s Bloodlines & Power Series | August 9, 2025 A 2023 Reuters investigation found at least 119 of America’s most influential leaders—presidents, governors, members of Congress, and Supreme Court justices—descend from people who enslaved Black Americans. What that means for power, policy, and repair today. Introduction American power didn’t just survive slavery—it inherited it. In 2023, Reuters published a …
August 2020 T.I. Puts Lloyd’s of London ‘On Notice,’ Demands Reparations for Role in Atlantic Slave Trade T.I. has called out Lloyd’s of London, demanding that the U.K. insurance titan pay reparations to descendants of African slaves due to the company’s ties to the transatlantic slave trade. In a letter to Lloyd’s, the rapper put the company “on notice.” “Our …
April 24, 2020 AM Coronavirus has lanced open the scabbed womb of America’s past in numerous sectors. From a historical perspective, African-Americans collectively should proceed with extreme caution in any life threatening national event situation. Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Texas and other states are proceeding with re-opening their respective cities irrespective of facts the virus has not ebbed or flattened …
