Looking to the Past to Create the Future
On May 28, 2024, the Restitution Study Group, Inc., a New York based reparatory justice organization led by Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, officially filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC. The petition seeks to address significant legal questions surrounding the Smithsonian Institution's recent actions regarding the repatriation …
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Restitution Study Group Takes Corporate Complicity and Slavery to Cannes with Explosive New Film New York, NY – May 19, 2024 – The Restitution Study Group (RSG) is set to make waves at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival with their groundbreaking film, Dry Bones: Corporate Complicity and Slavery. The short documentary film trailer, financed by a …
https://videopress.com/v/rohMkDNw?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely, Harlem USA's Ambassador to the UN, and Antonio Isuperio of Brazil deliver the Restitution Study Group’s Benin bronze ownership claim for Afrodescendants at the United Nations. Geneva, Switzerland – April 18, 2024 – Today, Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely, Harlem, USA's Ambassador to the United Nations, and Antonio Isuperio …
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - At an official side event of the United Nations Human Rights Commission's Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, on Saturday April 13, 2024, at 10 am ET, global descendants of enslaved Africans forcefully stated their ownership claim to the famous Benin Bronzes through the Restitution Study Group (RSG). The event featured …
Join us Saturday, April 13th, 10:00am ET for a virtual film screening and Q&A on the Afrodescendant effort to secure repatriation of the iconic slave trade Benin bronzes! An official side event of the 3rd Session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.
THE STOLEN WEALTH OF SLAVERY: A Case for Slavery Reparations When journalist David Montero reached out to me a few years back to discuss my work exposing corporations complicit in slavery, I had no idea his book was aimed at building a case for reparations. I thought we had already done that. But Montero takes …
Join the Maangamizi Educational Trust, Decolonising the Archive, the Restitution Study Group and friends on Saturday 2nd December 2023 at the entrance of the British Museum and the Horniman Museum for an Ancestral Dedication. The Ancestral Dedication themed Maangamizi (Afrikan Hellacaust) Bronzes is in remembrance and honour of our Ancestors who were trafficked and enslaved for the metal manillas refabricated into the Benin bronzes as …
We appreciate the article. We are referenced but were not interviewed. It is so full of fiction from chiefs and royals, it inspired a series of responses. Here is Response #1: The Oba Ewaure II Traditional Council reported in their 2018 book, "The Benin Monarchy" that they made the bronzes with slave trade manillas p205, …
LONDON, NEW YORK, FRANKFURT / MAIN, 1 September, 2023 The Restitution Study Group (RSG) is following with great interest the substantial fallout from the scandal surrounding the alleged theft of antiquities from the British Museum by employees of the UK institution. The explanation given by British Museum Chairman George Osbourne that reports of criminal activity …
https://videopress.com/v/vfefnr6H?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Ancestral Dedications at The Met, 8/5 and the Brooklyn Museum, 8/6. Join the Restitution Study Group and friends at the entrance of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City as we honor our ancestors who were sold for the metal manillas refabricated into the Benin bronzes. We demand co-ownership of the …
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