On August 31, 2024, the California Legislative Black Caucus and Governor Gavin Newsom allowed AB 1315 — the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency Act — to die, amended into irrelevance, and buried under another study. Emend The Mass Media Group was in the room. They documented everything. And on June 19, 2026…
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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),…
ADOS
They’re Pulling Out the Ingredients. Every Cheat Code Black America Survived On Is Being Shut Down.
Yvette Carnell, political commentator, co-founder of the ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery) movement, and President of the ADOS Advocacy Foundation, delivered this commentary on her Wednesday Breaking Brown livestream. No guest. No panel. Just one person walking through the economics of Black survival in America and what it means that…
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…
New York State Commission
Charles Barron on Why Every Reparations Door Has Been Closed From the Inside.
“Elected Revolutionary” Charles Barron is a member of the original Black Panther Party, a longtime reparationist, and a former NYC City Councilman and New York State Assembly Member. On this #FreedmenFridays segment, Barron explains the multiple stall-outs, challenges, and forward progress of New York’s state and municipal reparations efforts. The…
Podcast
LA City Reparations Update w/LA Civil Rights Exec. Director Capri Maddox #freedmenfridays
The Los Angeles Reparations Advisory Commission has released its full report, raising the question: what comes next? On this edition of Dominique DiPrima’s #FreedmenFridays, she talks with Attorney Capri Maddox, Executive Director of the LA Civil Rights Department, which oversees the city’s reparations work alongside four other commissions. Appointed in…
California Reparations Task Force
California Reparations Update with Cheryce Cryer on Dominique DiPrima’s #FreedmenFriday !
Cheryce Cryer is an attorney, advocate, and activist who has been a vocal proponent of reparations, particularly for descendants of enslaved Black Americans. She has actively pushed for the reestablishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau as part of reparative justice and has participated in numerous public discussions and presentations to highlight…
Books
Dr. William “Sandy” Darity on Dominique DiPrima’s #FreedmenFriday !
Dr. Darity’s perspective is a call for precision, integrity, and courage in the quest for reparative justice. Until America is ready to implement a comprehensive solution, anchored in acknowledgment, direct redress, and closure, he urges the movement and the public to resist redefining “reparations” to mean less than what the…