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damali ayo's new book, How to Rent a Negro, continues her work as an artist who challenges, with courage and wit, systems of white privilege, ideology, and oppression.

excerpts from “Too Damn Little, Too Damn Late,” Salon by Debra J. Dickerson, June 28, 2005
You were expecting, maybe, gratitude for your lynching apology? You should live so long. Here are my top 10 reactions to America’s latest patronizing attempt to repent its racism:
1. Bite me.
2. Damn right, the least you could do.
3. Mighty white […]

from ARTNews Summer 2004 and September 2004 issues, International News sections and from BBC News/ UK
Berlin - City officials have decided on a seven year exhibition of the art collection of Friedrich Christian Flick, the grandson of an arms manufacturer and steel magnate who supplied the Nazi regime using thousands of Jewish and other […]

excerpts from “Brown University to Examine Debt to Slave Trade” By Pam Belluck, March 13, 2004, NYTimes
Dr. Ruth Simmons became the president of Brown University nearly three years ago and is the first African-American president of an Ivy League university. But the university she was chosen to lead had early links to slavery, with […]

excerpts from “Double Set Back for Justice Seekers”, Herb Boyd, The Black World Today, 3/14/04 (www.tbwt.org)
In Tulsa, U.S. Senior District Judge James Ellison ruled that the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the city and the state that destroyed Tulsa’s black neighborhood 83 years ago cannot seek reparations in court because of the long-expired statute of […]

15 April 2003, New York Times
by Ginger Thompson
JOHANNESBURG, April 15 — President Thabo Mbeki said today that his government would pay reparations totaling some $85 million to more than 19,000 victims of apartheid crimes, who testified about their suffering before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
In a speech before Parliament, President Mbeki announced that the family […]

LOS ANGELES — A group of Japanese-Americans seeking to preserve World War II internment camp sites concluded a three-day summit Sunday, saying there is an urgent need to gather information from survivors who are now mostly in their 70s and older.
Just one of the camps where 120,000 Japanese-Americans were held has come under a National […]

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A South African support group for victims of apartheid has sued several top international banks and businesses for supporting the racist regime.
The lawsuit was filed late Monday by the Khulamani group in federal court in New York City on behalf of the group’ 33,000 members and 85 individuals.
The plaintiffs allege Citigroup, […]

Descendants of black American slaves in New York and San Francisco filed lawsuits against several major corporations yesterday, contending that the companies should pay reparations for reaping profits on the backs of people who worked without pay.
The lawsuits were the latest in a flurry of legal actions promised by activist Deadria Farmer-Paellman, who in March […]

For the first time London has commemorated its involvement in the slave trade with a series of activities Friday linked to the United Nations ( news - web sites)-sponsored International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, August 23.
“The whole issue has been willfully buried,” said Martine Miel of Anti-Slavery […]