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Faith groups urged to lead slavery reparations effort
A panel urging national reconciliation called on the faith community to guide reparations for slavery and racial injustice. Leaders cited Episcopal Maryland’s $1 million fund and a Minnesota churches council truth and reparations plan, while lawmakers push for a national commission to study 1619 to today.
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America
U.S
Ira E. Carruthers
Samuel DeWitt Proctor
Associated Press
Religion News Service
Episcopal Diocese of
Maryland
Minnesota Council of Churches
South Africa
Postapartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Minneapolis
George Floyd
Jamar Clark
Philando Castile
Daunte Wright
Jim Bear Jacobs
Council
Jacobs
Minnesota