Looking to the Past to Create the Future
Join the Restitution Study Group at the entrance of New York City museums that hold slave trade Benin bronzes as we dance and drum in honor of our ancestors who were sold for the metal manillas refabricated into the relics. Choreography by Havanna Fisher. We demand co-ownership, acknowledgement of the slave trade origin of the …
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by Emily Flitter Today Emily Flitter of the NYT said: “We applaud the truth today, but truth is not enough,” Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, the executive director of the Restitution Study Group, which researches companies’ ties to slavery, said in an email to The New York Times on Thursday. “We urge Citigroup to reach out to us to …
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Excerpt: I spoke and corresponded with Farmer-Paellmann in late May, as she was preparing to leave for the Cannes Film Festival to present a film she had made about the slave-trade origins of the Benin artworks, They Belong to All of Us. “It feels like we are being sold all over again,” she wrote to …
by Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, Executive Director, Restitution Study Group, Delivered to the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, United Nations, New York, May 31, 2023 https://videopress.com/v/d0TyEMma?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Sheila Camaroti da Silva, RSG Brazilian Mobilizer. UN Statement in Portugese.Delivered June 2, 2023 to UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. This is a Benin bronze. It …
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The Restitution Study Group (RSG), a New York reparatory justice institute, is celebrating victories at the Cannes film festival Marche du Film. Their short film, "They Belong to All of Us: The Benin Bronze Slave Trade Story," won two awards at the International Cell Phone Cinema Awards in Cannes: Best Film for Social Purpose and …
https://videopress.com/v/G05685d1?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&posterUrl=https%3A%2F%2Frsgincorp.files.wordpress.com%2F2023%2F05%2Fimg-20230516-wa0035.jpg&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true TRAILER by Usavior The Restitution Study Group (RSG), a New York based reparatory justice non-profit, released the trailer for their short film, "They Belong to All of Us: The Benin Bronze Slave Trade Story." We are proud to have two Out of Competition screenings at the Marche du Film in Cannes, France on May …
We are proud to announce two Out of Competition screenings of our short film "They Belong to All of Us: The Benin Bronze Slave Trade Story" at the Marche du Film in Cannes, France on May 25th, 2023. The first screening will be at the International Cellphone Cinema Showcase, 2pm at the Eden Hotel and …
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We watched the German Parliament debates today with great interest. MP Awet Tesfaiesus quoted Julius Nyrere to make an analogy between the taking of the Benin bronzes in 1897 and a person who visits your home and steals a jacket. She suggests they could never have proper ownership of your jacket, but: "If the jacket had the …
Ngaire Blankenberg quietly left the institution at the end of March For the third time in six years, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art is looking for a new director. Ngaire Blankenberg, a museum and cultural consultant who took up the post in July 2021, left the museum at the end of this …
If you have Nigerian DNA from an ancestor enslaved in the Americas (Brazil, Caribbean, USA etc.) via the transatlantic slave trade, then you are a "DNA Descendant." If you wish to be considered at the ongoing negotiations for shared ownership of the iconic Benin bronzes -- our cultural property worth $30 billion -- we need …
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