NEW YORK, New York – A veteran reparations and Black political activist in the United States will on Wednesday deliver the inaugural lecture on reparations by the Grenada National Reparations Commission (GNRC).
Dr. Ron Daniels, IBW’s president.The New York-based Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW), said that its president and convener of the US National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), Dr. Ron Daniels, will address the virtual meeting on Wednesday evening.
“I am especially honored to accept the invitation, given my engagement with the People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada, via the National Black Independent Political Party, which brought a large delegation to Grenada for ‘All Heroes Day’ at the height of the revolution,” Daniels told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).
IBW said the theme of the public lecture is “Malcolm, Maurice and the Movement for Reparations in Grenada.”
It said the purpose of the event is to “connect the struggle for reparations to the revolutionary struggle for Black liberation – a struggle that was led by two of Grenada’s revolutionary sons, Malcolm X, whose mother was born in Grenada, and former Grenada prime minister Maurice Bishop.
IBW noted that May 19 is also the birthday of Malcolm X.
“This is an important moment for Grenada and the Caribbean region,” said Ambassador Arley Gill, GNRC’s chairman, adding “the fight for reparations for slavery and the legacy of slavery which is still being felt here in Grenada and across the African diaspora is long overdue”.
St. Lucian journalist and chairman of the St. Lucia National Reparation Committee, Earl Bousquet, will also address Wednesday’s event.
