Reported by Maya Brown, Live 5 News, Charleston, SC. The Charleston Reparations Task Force, in coalition with Gullah Geechee community members and descendants of enslaved Africans, confronted representatives of three major Lowcountry plantations and issued a formal demand for land transfer and reparative justice. 1. This is reparations as…
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CARICOM
Restitution Now: The Caribbean Is Building Its Case and It Starts with Haiti
Hosted by the University of the Bahamas in partnership with Equality Bahamas and the National Reparations Committee, this symposium on reparatory justice for Haiti brings together scholars, activists, journalists, and members of the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. The speakers include Gel Curry (Vice Chair, UN…
Charleston Reparations Task Force
They’re Hosting Weddings on Stolen Land. Charleston Descendants Fight to Reclaim What Slavery Took.
Direct descendants of enslaved people in Charleston, South Carolina are demanding the transfer of more than 7,000 acres of former plantation land, and they are giving the owners 40 days to respond. Charlotte Drayton is a white descendant of plantation owners. She is joining the fight. “I have always felt…
Art, Culture & Memory
“If We Can’t Get Justice for Her, We Can’t Get It for Anyone”: 105 Years After Tulsa, One Survivor Is Still Waiting
As America marks the 105th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, ABC Senior National Correspondent Steve Osunsami revisits the events that destroyed Black Wall Street, and national civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons, whose new book Redeem a Nation offers a blueprint for the justice that still hasn’t come. Damario Solomon-Simmons’s…
Books
My 111-Year-Old Client Will Be in Line: Damario Solomon-Simmons on the Tulsa Race Massacre, Reparations, and the 1776 Fund Precedent
Angela Rye’s latest SoloPod opens with two voting rights victories — federal courts rejecting racially gerrymandered maps in both Alabama and South Carolina — then pivots to a conversation with attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons, founder of Justice for Greenwood, legal counsel for the last living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre,…
Edutainment
A Republican Just Called It Reparations. On Live TV. Willie D Has the Receipts.
Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pennsylvania) used the word “reparations” on Newsmax to describe Trump’s $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund — a taxpayer-backed settlement fund for people who claim the Biden administration wronged them. Willie D’s point is simple: “Now we know y’all have a fundamental understanding of what reparations is. Y’all just don’t want to pay…
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…
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…
News
Chance The Rapper Highlights Ben & Jerry’s Support for Reparations
Chance The Rapper has publicly expressed support for Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, following Greenfield’s resignation. Greenfield stepped down due to conflicts with the parent company, Unilever, which he says has been restricting the company’s activism on social justice issues. Chance highlighted Greenfield’s commitment to causes like Black…