Looking to the Past to Create the Future
By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY Deadria Farmer-Paellmann has spent five years digging for evidence that ties Corporate America to pre-Civil War slavery. She confronted Aetna in 2000. . . NEW YORK — Her husband, who's German and white, didn't believe her. So they played a game. They'd go to a store and each make a …
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When Alderman Dorothy Tillman proposed an ordinance to begin hearings on reparations for the descendents of enslaved Africans, critics dismissed it as just another eccentric gesture by the voluble city legislator. But this was no random gesture. Tillman's ordinance was the product of serious research and resembles similar measures that have passed in the cities …
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Aetna Inc., the nation’s largest health insurer, apologized for selling policies in the 1850s that reimbursed slave owners for financial losses when those they enslaved died. “Aetna has long acknowledged that for several years shortly after its founding in 1853 that the company may have insured the lives of slaves,” Aetna spokesman Fred Laberge said …
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Restitution Study Group 