The NAACP just announced their most aggressive move yet against states attacking Black voting rights — and they’re going straight for the money. The “Out of Bounds” initiative calls on Black athletes, alumni, fans, and supporters to withhold athletic participation and donations from eight states that are actively dismantling…
News
Critical Conversation: WALKING AND WORKING FOR REPARATIONS! w/ Robin Rue Simmons and Rev. Dr. Robert Turner
Taking part in this conversation are our guests are Rev. Dr. Robert Turner, pastor of Empowerment Temple in Baltimore, Maryland, and Robin Rue Simmons, founder and executive director of FirstRepair in Evanston, IL. Since becoming pastor in 2021, Dr. Turner has walked from Baltimore to the White House for reparations….
News
They Found $1.8 Billion in 48 Hours. Now About Those Reparations.
“If America can create a $1.8 billion fund for political allies in 48 hours — it can repair 250 years of slavery.” — Dr. Cornel West, CNN, May 18, 2026 The Trump administration just created a $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” using taxpayer money to compensate political allies who claim they were unfairly…
Books
Dr. Marcus Hunter on Why Reparations Must Be Holistic, Collective, and Intergenerational
Dr. Hunter’s book Radical Reparations explores the many forms reparations can take — going beyond financial compensation to include psychological, cultural, spiritual, and community-level repair The conversation is anchored in the American Psychological Association’s resolution on Individual, Collective, and Intergenerational Trauma Recovery — a landmark document that formally recognizes the restorative roles of restitution and reparations…
Educational Resources
Cynthia McDonald Makes the Secular Case for Reparations.
Cynthia McDonald — social worker, political advocate, and lead organizer for Black Nonbelievers Chicago. Originally presented at the Women of Color Beyond Belief conference and uploaded to Vimeo in October 2025, her talk is a masterclass in evidence-based justice. McDonald argues that faith-based appeals for reparations are ineffective — they can be…
Community and Activism
Happy Reparations Day Chicago: How Chicago Won Reparations for Police Torture Survivors
On May 6, 2026, Chicago gathered at Washington Park Refectory to celebrate “Happy Reparations Day” — and to announce the upcoming groundbreaking of a permanent memorial honoring survivors of Jon Burge’s police torture ring. Jen Ash, Executive Director of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Foundation, delivered a…
Books
Damario Solomon-Simmons on the 105-Year Legal Battle After the Tulsa Race Massacre
Host (Sunny): The fight for reparations for Black Americans has been met with huge resistance — I talk about it on our show all the time. There is a photo in your book that was taken in the aftermath of the massacre. (photo displayed on screen) You return to this image when you…
Global Perspectives
Reparations Finance Lab SFWF25 Interview
Enith Martin Williams Enith Martin Williams is a financial services executive with over 30 years of international experience in economic and social development, banking, and capital markets. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Reparations Finance Lab, an organization she launched in 2021 that focuses on designing and deploying reparative investments…
Educational Resources
Illinois Reparations Commission Report – Read by Raphael H. Plunkett P. 1
“The name Illinois is the French representation of a word that means “he/she speaks in the ordinary way.” That powerful sentence might be updated to the colloquial phrase “real talk.” This volume is a first step towards living up to the state’s name. Illinois, it’s time for real talk on…
Books
DOROTHY A. BROWN talks about her new book “GETTING TO REPARATIONS” at Politics and Prose.
Getting to Reparations How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past She has been on the law faculty at Georgetown since 2022, and before that taught at Emory, Washington and Lee, George Mason, and the University of Cincinnati. Her previous book, The Whiteness of Wealth, examined how the…