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First Community in Massachusetts Adopts Plan to Pay Reparations to Descendants of Slavery
By: Bob Dumas When asked if the federal government should use taxpayer money to pay damages to descendants of enslaved people, only one out of five people said yes. The town of Amherst feels differently. It’s now the first community in the state to create what they call a Reparations Stabilization Fund. |
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From Here to Equality
By: William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen This is a book primarily about the economic divide between Black and white Americans—how it came to be and how it can be eliminated. Specifically, we contend, a suitably designed program of reparations can close the divide. Black reparations can place America squarely on the path to racial equality. |
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Reparations Now Resolution
By: Representative Cori Bush A bill recognizing that the United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States. The bill was co-sponsored by Palestinian-American Representative Rashida Talib. |
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Reparations Now Toolkit
By: Movement for Black Lives This toolkit explores the long history of struggles for reparations for Black people, lays out key facts, concepts, and international human rights law underlying reparations demands, and provides case studies of struggles for reparations at the institutional, local, state, and international levels. |
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The Case for Reparations
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. |
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Tulsa Race Massacre Symposium Keynote Speech
By: Suzette Malveaux Remarks from Suzette Malveaux, a member of the legal team. She is working to secure reparations for victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre. |
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What Is Owed: Without Economic Justice, There Can Be No True Equality
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the U.S., the country must finally take seriously what it owes Black Americans. |
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Why We Need Reparations for Black Americans
By: Rashawn Ray and Andre Perry The same U.S. government that denied wealth to Black people should restore that deferred wealth through reparations to their descendants in the form of individual cash payments in the amount that will close the Black-white racial wealth divide. Additionally, reparations should come in the form of wealth-building opportunities that address racial disparities in education, housing, and business ownership. |
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