Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Reparations”
Five Native American nations entered treaties with the Confederacy during the Civil War, while some of their citizens held African Americans in slavery. The Reconstruction treaties of 1866 established freedom and varying citizenship, land, and financial protections for Freedmen. More than 160 years later, the consequences of those agreements continue to shape legal disputes and questions of historical accountability.
As America debates reparations, deficits, and institutional accountability, critics increasingly argue the nation continues demonstrating extraordinary flexibility for power while insisting historical repair remains economically impossible.
As reparations debates expand globally, new claims suggest immigration policy could be used as leverage. This piece examines the signals, implications, and structural response.
The recognition of slavery as a crime against humanity establishes a global record—but it does not guarantee structural change. This InnerKwest analysis examines how accountability systems absorb acknowledgment without necessarily producing outcomes.
The recognition of slavery as a crime against humanity raises a deeper question: who bears the economic consequences. This InnerKwest analysis examines how wealth accumulation, liability, and global resistance shape the debate over reparations.
The U.N. resolution recognizing slavery as the gravest crime against humanity passed with broad support—but key nations resisted its implications. This InnerKwest analysis examines how legal arguments, abstentions, and opposition reveal the limits of acknowledgment within existing global systems.
The United Nations has recognized slavery as the gravest crime against humanity, following a resolution led by Ghana. This InnerKwest analysis examines what that recognition establishes—and the deeper questions it leaves unresolved.
Africa is making its boldest collective demand in a century: the formal recognition of colonialism as an international crime, complete with calls for reparations, the return of stolen cultural artifacts, and accountability for genocide and resource plunder. As leaders convene in Algeria, a unified African bloc is challenging the global order that allowed slavery, land dispossession, and economic exploitation to enrich Western powers while destabilizing the Global South. This comprehensive analysis examines the legal, economic, and geopolitical implications of Africa’s historic move—why it matters now, what justice could look like, and how this shift may redefine international law and global power structures.
Between 1904 and 1908, German colonial forces in Namibia carried out the first genocide of the 20th century, killing tens of thousands of Herero and Nama. While Germany continues to pay reparations in Europe, its African victims remain uncompensated. The debt of this forgotten genocide is still unpaid.
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 …
