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…
Category: Film and TV
Community and Activism
Black Reparations – The 1969 ‘Input’ Program featuring Muhammad Kenyatta
This 1969 television program emerged during a crucial moment in reparations history. The year 1969 marked the delivery of James Forman’s Black Manifesto, which demanded $500 million in reparations from white churches and synagogues. Forman famously interrupted worship at Riverside Church in New York on May 4, 1969, to deliver this…
Church
The Reparations Movement at Oak Grove Presbyterian Church
Oak Grove Presbyterian Church is not only engaging in conversations about reparations but is actively providing reparative funds through the Restorative Actions initiative, embodying their faith through practical, financial commitments to racial justice and repair. Oak Grove Presbyterian Church in Minnesota is actively participating in reparative justice efforts, focusing…