The next session in the United Reformed Church (URC’s) Black History Monthly series takes place on 21 June from 7.30-8.30pm via Zoom.
Hosted by the URC’s Legacies of Slavery task group, the online conversation will focus on The Case for Reparations, an article written by Ta Nehisi Coates.
Karen Campbell, URC Secretary for Global and Intercultural Ministries, says: “Although the subject is controversial, many people feel that the arguments are very clear. For example, in
the British territories the deal for abolishing slavery saw slave-owners compensated for their ‘loss of property’- incurring a government debt which UK taxpayers only finished paying off in 2015, yet at no time were the enslaved people, their descendants, or their homelands, compensated for the impacts of transatlantic slavery on their lives and wellbeing.”
Each month throughout the year, a different article, film, book, or poetry by Black writers will be explored so that people can learn about Black History through a variety of lenses.
Monthly sessions take place on the third Monday of each month, from 7.30-8.30pm via Zoom.
For details of the June conversation, please see the URC’s Legacies of Slavery webpage, or email: [email protected]
The Legacies of Slavery task group was set up in 2019 to consider how the URC might respond meaningfully to the ongoing legacies of the transatlantic slave trade highlighted in a Council for World Mission project and report. The task group’s work includes three distinct but intersecting areas: