“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…
Category: Policy & Legislation
Bills, commissions, and task forces at the federal, state, and local levels. Legislative progress and challenges.
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…
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…
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…
California Reparations Task Force
Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Breaking Down Reparations W/ Isaac Bryan on Higher Learning
Breaking Down Reparations For a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the subject, we strongly encourage readers to consult Dr. Darity’s extensive academic contributions on reparations. Read What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap, and Checkout the newest work From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in…
California Reparations Task Force
Gavin Newsom Vetoes Five Reparations Bills For Descendants of American Slavery
Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed five bills aimed at providing “reparative justice” for Black Californians, particularly descendants of enslaved people, in October 2025. The bills he vetoed focused on giving preferences and support in college admissions, home-buying programs, business licenses, and restitution for property unjustly taken through eminent domain. Vetoed…
California Reparations Task Force
California Governor Gavin Newsom Signs Bill Creating Reparations Agency
California has officially broken new ground in the reparations movement with the signing of Senate Bill 518 by Governor Gavin Newsom. He Also vetoed Five Reparations Bills For Descendants of American Slavery
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…
ADOS
Dr. Ray Winbush talks Reparations, Hip-Hop, and The Black Male w/Toby Tansil
Dr. Ray Winbush talks Reparations, Hip-Hop, and The Black Male in an interview with Toby Tansil on Building Se7en ®
Community and Activism
Zohran Mamdani, Ben Crump, and Al Sharpton March on Wall Street for Economic Justice
Attorney Ben Crump delivered a powerful and impassioned message at the 2025 March on Wall Street for economic justice, famously reiterating, “Economic justice is civil rights. Economic justice is civil rights. Economic justice is civil rights.” Crump drew a powerful comparison, stating, “Worse than how they killed George…