The first municipal reparations program in United States history is under legal challenge. The Trump administration’s Department of Justice — through its Civil Rights Division — has moved to intervene in a lawsuit challenging Evanston, Illinois’ Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program. The DOJ argues that directing housing assistance and…
Category: Policy & Legislation
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Policy & Legislation
The Next 250 Years Cannot Look Like the Last. Equity Week on Capitol Hill Demands Repair.
During Equity Week on Capitol Hill, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) hosted a press conference calling on Congress to advance reparative justice legislation for communities of color who bear the disproportionate burden of this nation’s institutional social, racial, and economic inequities. Speakers included Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12), Dreisen Heath (reparations organizer),…
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,…
New York State Commission
Update: New York Just Pushed Its Reparations Study to 2029. – New York’s Reparations Hearings Are Doing the Work the Federal Government Refuses to Do.
Update: New York Just Pushed Its Reparations Study to 2029. The new deadline is 2029 — nearly four years past the original target. That’s two more election cycles, one more presidential term, and many more potential setbacks before New York even recommends anything. The commission was never empowered to…
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…
Podcast
So White People Can Get Reparations? Angela Rye Has Questions.
Political commentator and attorney Angela Rye went live on May 22, 2026 to ask the question that every Black American is thinking: So white people can get reparations? The Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” is being called out for what looks like reparations for insurrectionists, funded by the same taxpayers…
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…
Books
Dr. Marcus Hunter on Why Reparations Must Be Holistic, Collective, and Intergenerational
Dr. Hunter’s book Radical Reparations explores the many forms reparations can take — going beyond financial compensation to include psychological, cultural, spiritual, and community-level repair The conversation is anchored in the American Psychological Association’s resolution on Individual, Collective, and Intergenerational Trauma Recovery — a landmark document that formally recognizes the restorative roles of restitution and reparations…