What does reparations actually mean? And why is it so important to talk about right now? In a live episode of Undistracted recorded at Vital Voices Global Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Brittany Packnett Cunningham sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to make the case that reparations is not…
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Juneteenth
Juneteenth Spurs New Jersey Reparations Push as Advocates Press for Repair
As Juneteenth celebrations unfold, New Jersey advocates including Jean-Pierre Brutus are pushing reparations back into the spotlight. NJ Spotlight News reports on the statewide and national fight for repair. Five years after Juneteenth became a federal holiday, New Jersey advocates are using the anniversary to press for reparations at the…
Podcast
Reparations Is Not Too Hard: Aria Florant on the Case for Repair
Public support for reparations currently stands at 36% — about 9 percentage points higher than support for marriage equality when that movement coalesced. Yet most people who support reparations think they are alone. Aria Florant, co-founder and CEO of Liberation Ventures, joined Glen Galaich and Malila Becton-Consuegra on the Stupski…
CARICOM
Africa’s Reparations Commissions Hold First Joint Meeting as AU-CARICOM Partnership Deepens.
For the first time in history, the CARICOM Reparations Commission and the two reparations commissions established by the African Union sat down together. What came out of that meeting is a coordinated, cross-continental strategy to take the reparations demand to the United Nations — backed by a voting bloc…
Illinois Reparations Commission
The DOJ Is Moving Against Evanston’s Reparations Program by using the 14th Amendment and the Fair Housing Act.
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…
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),…