By Scott Merzbach, Amherst Bulletin — Amherst has never experienced a racially motivated attack similar to the weekend’s shooting that killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York….
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By Helen Chickering, BPR — The newly formed Asheville-Buncombe Community Reparations Commission passed its first recommendation Tuesday night. The proposal by former city council member Keith Young, who has played a major…
By Aaron Allen, The Seattle Medium — The Race & Gender Equity Committee of Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (PSARA), a group of retirees known for their social justice…
Individuals first to receive Evanston reparations benefit EVANSTON, IL – The first 16 beneficiaries of the City of Evanston’s historic Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program have selected the benefits they’ll receive…
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media — Most people attending a recent community meeting on reparations in the Bay Area had never heard of Russell City, an unincorporated majority…
By GBH News — Plans for reparations are starting to emerge across the country after various measures have been under consideration for more than 150 years. However, what will these…
By Austyn Gaffney, Smart Cities Dive — Dive Brief: Providence, Rhode Island, Mayor Jorge Elorza last week signed an executive order creating a city commission to develop recommendations on how to facilitate…
By Jennifer Popper, TAPinto — Editor’s Note: This is to acknowledge that the resolution being introduced is specific to an Assembly bill about Newark, not Plainfield. An earlier version of…
A task force in charge of the state’s reparations effort, the first in the nation, is struggling to decide which Black Californians should receive payments. By Soumya Karlamangla, NYT —…
The city’s task force is developing short-, mid- and long-term recommendations on how best to address governmental systemic racism and is collecting input from the community on who should be…
By Michele Miller — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Four days later, Civil Rights Warrior and Congressman John Conyers Jr. took to the…
Communique PDF (175KB) | DOC (59.3KB) December 9-11, 2021, at a moment of unprecedented national and international racial reckoning, scores of community-based stakeholders, advocates, elected officials and scholars converged on…
