Cynthia McDonald — social worker, political advocate, and lead organizer for Black Nonbelievers Chicago. Originally presented at the Women of Color Beyond Belief conference and uploaded to Vimeo in October 2025, her talk is a masterclass in evidence-based justice. McDonald argues that faith-based appeals for reparations are ineffective — they can be…
Community and Activism
Happy Reparations Day Chicago: How Chicago Won Reparations for Police Torture Survivors
On May 6, 2026, Chicago gathered at Washington Park Refectory to celebrate “Happy Reparations Day” — and to announce the upcoming groundbreaking of a permanent memorial honoring survivors of Jon Burge’s police torture ring. Jen Ash, Executive Director of the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Foundation, delivered a…
Global Perspectives
Reparations Finance Lab SFWF25 Interview
Enith Martin Williams Enith Martin Williams is a financial services executive with over 30 years of international experience in economic and social development, banking, and capital markets. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Reparations Finance Lab, an organization she launched in 2021 that focuses on designing and deploying reparative investments…
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…
Books
Queen Mother by Ashley D. Farmer: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore
Dr. Ashley D. Farmer is a historian of Black freedom movements and one of the sharpest voices writing about Black nationalism and reparations today. Her new book, Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore, follows the life and work of Audley Moore and shows how…
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…