Evanston, IL — Robin Rue Simmons, Founder and Executive Director of FirstRepair announced today that more than 150 community stakeholders, reparations advocates, scholars, public interest lawyers, elected officials and representatives…
Saturday, June 22, 2024 — A National Town Hall Meeting “The State of the Reparations Movement” Featuring a Screening of Erika Alexander’s The Big Payback and Panel Discussion with Representatives…
What are Comprehensive Reparations? The National African American Reparations Commission supports Comprehensive Reparations for Black America. Comprehensive reparations are expansive and focus on redressing crimes against humanity endured by Black…
Local and State Reparations: Repairing Black Communities Friday December 1, 2023 — Streamed live from the historic Second Baptist Church, Evanston, IL, “Local and State Reparations: Repairing Black Communities” A…
November 22, 2023 — Robin Rue Simmons, Executive Director of FirstRepair and Dr. Ron Daniels, Convener of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) announced today that community stakeholders, reparations…
The movement to compensate American descendants of slavery has gone from 40-acres-and-a-mule to local governments. But who should get paid and how? By Rebekah Sager, Reckon — The current U.S….
Baltimore, MD – Rev. Dr. Robert Turner, Senior Pastor of Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple and former Pastor of the historic Vernon AME Church in Tulsa, OK, vows to walk to Washington,…
By Toure Muhammad, Final Call News — EVANSTON, Ill.—It’s true. Some Black residents of Evanston, an affluent small college town just north of Chicago, will receive city-funded reparations soon, according…
By Julianne Malveaux — Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) introduced HR-40 in every congressional session from 1989 until he left Congress in 2017. Then, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) ably took…
National Commission and FirstRepair to Host Leaders from Across the Nation – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee to Attend as Special Guest Dr. Ron Daniels, Convener of the National African American…
Global Coalition Releases Declaration on International Day for People of African Descent — Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo Pledges Support. Accra, Ghana — To mark this year’s International Day for People of…
By Don Rojas — The young white terrorist who drove over 200 miles to murder 11 innocent black persons while they were grocery shopping in Buffalo, NY, had written “here’s…
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