Brooklyn, N.Y., forum on reparations

Roger Wareham

A Reparations Now Forum was held on Feb. 1 at Sistas’ Place Coffee House in Brooklyn, N.Y. The meeting focused on a report back on the 7th session of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, held at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, in January.

The key issue on the agenda was organizing regional, national and international preparatory conferences to follow up on the World Conference against Racism held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001, called “The Durban Review.”

Monica Moorehead signs books.

Human rights attorney Roger Wareham, who led a delegation from the December 12th Movement International Secretariat at the session, gave a report back from the session.

In addition, Monica Moorehead, a managing editor of Workers World newspaper, discussed the book “Marxism, Reparations, and the Black Freedom Struggle” that she edited last year. The book analyzes the reparations movement in the broader context of social movement at home and abroad. Following the meeting, she signed copies of the book.—Report & photos by Amadi Ajamu