New single features Young RJ (of Slum Village), Ras Kass, Nkechi Taifa, Kymrence Young, and BLIS Co-founder and Guest Rapper Trevor ‘Tricky Trev’ Smith. FirstRepair and the BLIS Collective are proud to announce…
November 14, 2024 town hall meeting will discuss the way forward for Black America Dr. Ron Daniels, President of the New York based Institute of the Black World 21st Century…
Historic resolution passes with overwhelming vote New York, September 3, 2024 — The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), America’s oldest Black Christian denomination, is now on record supporting the struggle…
Saturday, June 22, 2024, 3:00 PM EST — A National Town Hall Meeting “The State of the Reparations Movement” Featuring a Screening of Erika Alexander’s The Big Payback and Panel…
Local and State Reparations: Repairing Black Communities Friday December 1, 2023 — Streamed live from the historic Second Baptist Church, Evanston, IL, “Local and State Reparations: Repairing Black Communities” A…
The city started disbursing reparations payments to locals in 2022, in the form of vouchers for housing, and has since expanded them to include cash. By Chanelle Chandler, Yahoo News…
Reparations United and Black Pact presents Peace, Love, and Reparations Benefit Concert Taking place on July 1, 2023, in the heart of Black Los Angeles, Leimert Park. This event will…
By Toure Muhammad, Final Call News — EVANSTON, Ill.—It’s true. Some Black residents of Evanston, an affluent small college town just north of Chicago, will receive city-funded reparations soon, according…
By Julianne Malveaux — Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) introduced HR-40 in every congressional session from 1989 until he left Congress in 2017. Then, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) ably took…
National Commission and FirstRepair to Host Leaders from Across the Nation – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee to Attend as Special Guest Dr. Ron Daniels, Convener of the National African American…
By Rachel Schlueter, The Daily Northwestern — The Evanston Reparations Committee hosted a town hall Saturday October 22, 2022 to address concerns about the city’s reparations program. The committee invited…