Their ancestors were enslaved workers. Now they're getting $2,100 a year in reparations
CNN
For over a century, the Virginia Theological Seminary used Black Americans for forced labor. Now it's determined to make amends.
Her grandparents lived in a little white house on campus with their four children, including her mother. But until two years ago, she had no idea that her grandfather, John Samuel Thomas Jr., had been enslaved at the school in Alexandria, just outside of Washington, D.C.When House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries negotiated a pair of major government funding bills with Speaker Mike Johnson earlier this year, he also quietly secured a significant victory for his own party: a considerable bump in money for transportation, housing and urban development projects back in House Democrats’ home districts.
The photo of the dog believed to be the one South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem shot and killed has been seen millions of times on social media. It’s been published by one of the United Kingdom’s biggest newspapers. It was even distributed by a Washington, DC, animal rights group in a memo blasting Noem. Indeed, when I Googled “Kristi Noem’s dog” this morning, it was one of the first pictures that popped up.