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CARACAS – Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Yván Gil declared during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday that “free peoples” are building a “new world order.” Gil stood in representation of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, who chose not to travel to New York for the 78th United Nations General Assembly. “This new multipolar and multilateral world of peace and economic prosperity, free from hegemony, anchored in the United Nations Charter, must be based on the values of true multilateralism, international cooperation, and solidarity,” Gil said.

Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, told CNBC on Monday the U.S. government should provide $14 trillion of reparations for slavery to help reduce racial inequality. The wealth divide and police brutality against blacks are at the heart of protests that have erupted across the nation following last week’s killing of George Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis. “Now is the time to go big” to keep America from dividing into two separate and unequal societies, Johnson said on “Squawk Box.”

WASHINGTON -- Reparation for the legacy of slavery and peonage may not come in the form of a check, but it must come, speakers said Friday at a forum sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation....Others said the apology for slavery that the House passed last year and the Senate passed this year were good first steps, and singled out U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., who was on Friday's panel, for authoring the House resolution... [snip]

VOANEWS.com (Voice of America) Two African-American Activists Sue US Corporations for Slavery Jenny Badner New York 25 May 2002 20:39 UTC U.S. federal courts are now considering two separate lawsuits brought by African Americans seeking reparations for slavery during the 1800s. The potentially historic lawsuits follow other successful legal action brought against German corporations who used slave labor during the Nazi era. Slavery, as an institution, ended in 1865 in the United States after a bloody Civil War. Now, for the first time, more than 100 years later, two class action lawsuits accuse large U.S. corporations of profiting from slavery....