By Will Jones, ABC7 Chicago — Evanston is celebrating a major milestone in its reparations housing program: the city selected its first group of recipients Thursday morning. More than 600…
The dispute, which has spanned 14 years and several federal governments, has long been a sticking point in Ottawa’s efforts to advance reconciliation with Indigenous people. By Amanda Coletta, The…
Reparations Needed to Combat “Jim Crow Debt” By Dr. V.P Franklin (NAARC Commissioner) — Why should lower or middle-income students graduate with substantial educational debt from colleges and universities with…
Communique PDF (175KB) | DOC (59.3KB) December 9-11, 2021, at a moment of unprecedented national and international racial reckoning, scores of community-based stakeholders, advocates, elected officials and scholars converged on…
Background The following elements were devised by the National African American Reparations Commission as a baseline for certifying Municipal Reparations Initiatives based on the Evanston Reparatory Justice Model. Acknowledgement and…
By Ryan Thomas, TruthBeTold — Just last month, Greenbelt, a small Maryland suburb outside the nation’s capital, became the latest to join the movement for local reparations, as voters approved…
Streamed live on Friday, December 10, 2021 from the First Church of God CLC in Evanston, IL — A National town hall meeting, “Building a Local Reparations Movement” hosted in…
Streamed live on Friday, December 10, 2021 from the First Church of God CLC in Evanston, IL — A National town hall meeting, “Building a Local Reparations Movement” hosted in…
By Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — In the wake of atrocities, violence, and discrimination, reparations can play an important role in improving public health and emotional healing,…
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media — One day after Darrick Hamilton testified before California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, the panel decided…
The federal Liberal government says it is setting aside a whopping $40 billion to settle outstanding Indigenous child welfare lawsuits and to meet long-term needs for First Nations children and…
Scientists investigated whether genetic data collected from 50,000 volunteers lined up with historical shipping manifests. By Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine — A sweeping survey of more than 50,000 people’s DNA…