ST LOUIS— The Jesuit university is accused of stalling on reparations demands for the slavery it profited from. He wasn’t there, but one couldn’t help but wonder whether Dr. Fred Pestello felt the brickbats hurled his way from Saint Louis University’s Busch Center. His office is just a couple of blocks down the street. Members of Descendants […]
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PALM SPRINGS— Decades ago, the homes in a Palm Springs neighborhood known as Section 14 were deemed eyesores and officials wanted to promote tourism. So they forced out the mostly black and brown families who lived there. Crews tore down everyone’s homes, and then burned them, sometimes with people’s personal possessions still inside. The city
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ST. LOUIS — Descendants of the Black people enslaved by St. Louis University have for the first time calculated how much labor and wealth was stolen from their ancestors, their latest effort in a years-long push for the university to “make good on promises of justice and accountability.”
ST. LOUIS — In an effort to pressure St. Louis University officials to honor and support the descendants of slaves who helped build the campus, civil rights attorney Areva Martin on Thursday announced $70 billion in reparations owed to them.
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DESCENDANTS OF ENSLAVED THAT BUILT ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY – JOINED BY SEN. KARLA MAY (D-05), LEAD COUNSEL AREVA MARTIN, EXPERTS, AND NEARLY 200 SUPPORTERS – UNVEILED VALUE OF STOLEN LABOR THAT BUILT ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY IN FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND ASSESSMENT Descendants and supporters called on University to disgorge assets; experts estimate value of slave labor that built
Photo by Diamond Dust Photography “Although the City of Palm Springs formally apologized for its role in the devastation of this community and announced plans to hire a reparations consultant to develop a plan and negotiate a settlement, counsel for these families known as the Palm Springs Section 14 Survivors says that negotiations are at a standstill. “