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U.S. youth poet laureate urges U.N. assembly to pursue reparatory justice and restitution
Summary
Salome Abwaroji, the United States' national youth poet laureate, urged member states at a United Nations General Assembly commemoration to acknowledge roles in the Transatlantic slave trade, support education about African histories, return stolen cultural goods and adopt reparatory-justice measures.
Salome Abwaroji, the United States' national youth poet laureate, told the United Nations General Assembly at its commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade that member states should formally acknowledge their roles in the transatlantic trade, support educational programs that teach full African histories, and return stolen cultural goods.
Abwaroji framed the call as both moral and practical, saying that nations that once "assign[ed] dollar values to human life" should use the same resources to "assign dollar values to your ethical debt." She cited the…
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