On the eve of Juneteenth 2026, members of the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus, community advocates, and descendants of the enslaved gathered in Lansing to announce something that rarely happens in statehouses anymore: a serious, specific, legislative response to the unfinished business of American freedom. The package does not promise…
Juneteenth
Marc Lamont Hill Office Hours: Dr. Roger Davidson on Juneteenth, the Civil War, and What Freedom Actually Means
Marc Lamont Hill hosted historian and Bowie State University Associate Professor Dr. Roger A. Davidson Jr. for an Office Hours deep dive into the history America oversimplifies every time it goes on sale at Target. The conversation ranged from the military mechanics of how emancipation actually happened, to Lincoln’s real record, to…
African Union
Juneteenth in Accra: African Union Declares Decade of Reparations and Joint Juneteenth Observance at Next Steps 2026
Less than three months after 123 nations voted yes on UN Resolution A/RES/80/250 — recognizing the trafficking of enslaved Africans as among the gravest crimes against humanity — world leaders converged on Accra, Ghana for the Next Steps 2026 High-Level Consultative Conference. Hosted by President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana, the African…
Juneteenth
Jean-Pierre Brutus and NJ Advocates Press for Reparations at Juneteenth
Amid Juneteenth celebrations, New Jersey advocates including Jean-Pierre Brutus are pressing for reparations. NJ Spotlight News reports on the push statewide and nationally. As the nation marks five years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday, New Jersey advocates are using the moment to press for reparations at the state…
Podcast
Break Fake Rules and Aria Florant of Liberation Ventures on Launching Beloved Repair This Juneteenth
Public support for reparations currently stands at 36% — about 9 percentage points higher than support for marriage equality when that movement coalesced. Yet most people who support reparations think they are alone. Aria Florant, co-founder and CEO of Liberation Ventures, joined Glen Galaich and Malila Becton-Consuegra on the Stupski Foundation’s Break Fake…
CARICOM
Africa’s Reparations Commissions Hold First Joint Meeting as AU-CARICOM Partnership Deepens.
For the first time in history, the CARICOM Reparations Commission and the two reparations commissions established by the African Union sat down together. What came out of that meeting is a coordinated, cross-continental strategy to take the reparations demand to the United Nations — backed by a voting bloc…
Illinois Reparations Commission
The DOJ Is Moving Against Evanston’s Reparations Program by using the 14th Amendment and the Fair Housing Act.
The first municipal reparations program in United States history is under legal challenge. The Trump administration’s Department of Justice — through its Civil Rights Division — has moved to intervene in a lawsuit challenging Evanston, Illinois’ Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program. The DOJ argues that directing housing assistance and…
Film and TV
Reparations Now! II: The Betrayal drops on Juneteenth — June 19, 2026.
On August 31, 2024, the California Legislative Black Caucus and Governor Gavin Newsom allowed AB 1315 — the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency Act — to die, amended into irrelevance, and buried under another study. Emend The Mass Media Group was in the room. They documented everything. And on June 19, 2026…