On Juneteenth 2026, the Trump administration did not celebrate. It intervened. The Department of Justice — under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche — filed to join a lawsuit aimed at shutting down the Evanston, Illinois reparations program, the first municipal reparations program in American history. The timing was not lost…
Tag: Black History
Freedmen
Michigan Lawmakers Introduce Reparative Justice Package on Eve of Juneteenth 2026
On the eve of Juneteenth 2026, members of the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus, community advocates, and descendants of the enslaved gathered in Lansing to announce something that rarely happens in statehouses anymore: a serious, specific, legislative response to the unfinished business of American freedom. The package does not promise…
Juneteenth
Marc Lamont Hill Office Hours: Dr. Roger Davidson on Juneteenth, the Civil War, and What Freedom Actually Means
Marc Lamont Hill hosted historian and Bowie State University Associate Professor Dr. Roger A. Davidson Jr. for an Office Hours deep dive into the history America oversimplifies every time it goes on sale at Target. The conversation ranged from the military mechanics of how emancipation actually happened, to Lincoln’s real record, to…
Juneteenth
Jean-Pierre Brutus and NJ Advocates Press for Reparations at Juneteenth
Amid Juneteenth celebrations, New Jersey advocates including Jean-Pierre Brutus are pressing for reparations. NJ Spotlight News reports on the push statewide and nationally. As the nation marks five years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday, New Jersey advocates are using the moment to press for reparations at the state…
Charleston Reparations Task Force
40 Days. 7,000 Acres. The Charleston Reparations Task Force Is Done Waiting on Words.
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…
Podcast
Mother Randall Is 111 Years Old and Still Waiting. Who Counts as Having Been Harmed by the State?
NPR’s Code Switch, hosted by B.A. Parker and Gene Demby, investigates the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” the federal judgment fund it drew from, and the question at the center of it all: who does the United States government recognize as having been harmed? Featuring Don Tamaki, attorney…
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…
African Union
Three Scholars. One Question. Has the World Finally Turned a Corner on Reparations?
Hosted by Future Africa and the University of Pretoria, this webinar titled “A False Start? Actions for Reparations and the UN Resolution on Slavery” brings together three scholars: Professor Helen Colum (University of Cape Town), Dr. Shangu (University of Jerusalem), and Professor Abdi Summit (University of Minnesota and member of…