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…
Books
Queen Mother by Ashley D. Farmer: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore
We are honored to have with us tonight Dr. Ashley D. Farmer joining us from Austin, Texas, where she teaches in the department of history and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas. Her new book, Queen Mother, Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of…
Charleston Reparations Task Force
Charleston Reparations Task Force and Gullah Geechee Descendants Demand 7,000 Acres and $9M
Source: ABC News 4 (April 30, 2026) & BLM Grassroots (April 24, 2026) On April 22, 2026, the Charleston Reparations Task Force issued a formal demand for the transfer of over 7,000 acres from three of South Carolina’s most prominent historic plantations — Middleton Place, Boone Hall, and Magnolia Plantation — to permanent Gullah Geechee stewardship….
Educational Resources
Dr. Shango Blake Addresses the New York State Commission on Reparations for African Americans.
Black educators are being maligned, targeted, and removed from schools and districts throughout the state of New York. Y’all didn’t hear what I just said. This is happening. That’s right. From the district leadership level, to the principal level, to the teacher level — we’re talking about reparations, and we’re…
Podcast
KBLA Talk 1580 -This Is Not A Drill! – Fighting For Reparations in South Carolina
Welcome to the live stream of This Is A Not A Drill on the LA radio station KBLA Talk 1580. Subscribe to @blmgrassroots on youtube to catch EVERY episode of “This Is Not A Drill” hosted by @docmellymel and our BLM Grassroots crew with Black power headlines, #MoreThanAHashtag conversations, and…
Educational Resources
National Urban League: Reparations Now-Inside the Movement to Repair America’s Past
This is part of the Justice Now series. What does justice and repair look like for descendants of enslaved Africans who built this nation on their very backs? In this second episode of season two, we head to #NewYork and #Illinois, where passionate leaders and community organizers are rallying…