In N.J.’s largest city, a Juneteenth march for reparations for slavery

Black activists march in Newark to demand reparations for slavery.

“The condition that Black people endure today are directly related to the impact of enslavement,” said Hamm, chair of the People’s Organization for Progress. “You can’t understand what is going in the United States without understanding slavery. The fundamental paradigm of racial inequality was set during the period of enslavement, and really hasn’t been broken.”

“The federal and state governments ought to be repairing us for these things now,” Baraka said. “All over this state and all over this country, everybody is celebrating Juneteeth today. The same legislators that tell you they don’t want want reparations are the same ones that are at Juneteenth celebrations right now.”

The People’s Organization for Progress and several other organizations host the Annual Juneteenth March and Rally for Reparations at the Lincoln Memorial in Newark on Monday afternoon.

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