“The Verdict Is In: Reparations Now!” is a collection of personal and empirical testimonies delivered at the first World Tribunal on Reparations for African People, held in 1982 in Brooklyn, New York.
A panel of international judges heard two days of testimony from the likes of Dr. Leonard Jeffries, then-Chairman of the Black Studies Department at City College of the City University of New York; Job Mashariki, then-President of Black Veterans for Social Justice; Afeni Shakur, member of the Panther 21 and mother of Tupac Shakur; Ebun Adelona, noted health care advocate; Eric Adams, present-day mayor of NYC; Kwame Braithwaite, acclaimed photojournalist; and Mafundi Lake, Alabama political prisoner.
Basing their findings on U.N. charters, the judges concluded that the United States government owed Black people $4.1 trillion in reparations for 400 years of stolen labor. …
