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…
Policy & Legislation
Siphiwe Baleka talks Apology to Repair at Tulsa Reparations Summit
“If we want to talk about reparations for Afro-descendant people — whether in North America, South America, Central America, or the Caribbean — we have to start at the origin. And sadly, as Carter G. Woodson taught us, most of us have been miseducated. We have never actually been taught…
Decatur Reparations Task Force
Fulton County Georgia Reparations Task Force Produced A “Harm Report”.
Fulton County, Georgia has taken a landmark step in confronting its racial past. The county’s Reparations Task Force — established by the Board of Commissioners in 2021 — has produced a sweeping 615-page “Harm Report” documenting the generational damage inflicted upon Black residents from the county’s founding in 1853 through…
African Union
The UN Just Passed a Reparations Resolution. The U.S. Said No.
Today, at the United Nations General Assembly, 123 nations voted to declare the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity.” Not an opinion. Not a debate. A formal, global declaration on record, forever. The resolution, led by Ghana and backed by the entire African Union, does not just…
Podcast
Pay The Tab podcast – Tulsa Revisited: The Fight Continues At Reparations Ground Zero
Explore Tulsa’s ongoing fight for repair with Damario Solomon-Simmons, a nationally recognized leader in reparations law. As the architect of the landmark Tulsa Race Massacre lawsuit, he helped thrust reparations into the mainstream. In this feature, he shares battle-tested strategies and energizing guidance for building change—even when the system feels…