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...Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann, a reparations activist who filed suit in 2002 against companies she alleges profited from slavery, claims in her suit that “money from the slave trade financed Yale University’s first endowed professorship, its first endowed scholarship, and its first endowed library fund...
...services companies, including FleetBoston and J.P. Morgan Chase; and such railroad giants as CSX and Union Pacific. Although the municipal ordinances don't address reparations, they require companies to research their records to disclose whether they benefited from slavery--information that could help identify "specific targets for reparations," says Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, a New York attorney leading the campaign. "Multibillion-dollar corporations are still around spending money they earned stealing people, breeding humans and torturing people...
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