"Yes, reparations are commonplace, even when it comes to race...Yet in the 163 years since the Emancipation Proclamation, America has never delivered reparations to the people it enslaved, whose raided bodies and forced labor built this country on stolen land." www.essence.com/news/a-count...

A Country's Unpaid Debt

Land, health care, education and the reparations that America still owes

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quakerstoday.podbean.com/e/quakers-re... Some good news from Philly Friends! #Reparations #Works @lucyduncan813.bsky.social

Quakers, Reparations, and Reparative Economies | Quakers Today

Co-hosts Peterson Toscano and Diana Yañez explore reparations beyond simple transactions. Rooted in abolition, repair is examined as a relational commitment and spiritual discipline aimed at ensuring ...

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Evanston, Ill., became the first U.S. city to compensate Black people for historical discrimination. The Justice Department is trying to kill its program before other cities follow suit. n.pr/4hqselp

This city led the way on reparations for Black people. Trump is trying to stop it

Evanston, Ill., became the first U.S. city to compensate Black people for historical discrimination. The Justice Department is trying to kill its program before other cities follow suit.

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LV is out for Wellness Week (8/31–9/4). We believe that repair as a practice to ensure Black healing and thriving, and making the impossible possible takes courage, and rest. Back September 8!

LV’s September grants round-up is here! This month's grants and fellowships are investing in journalists, visual artists, community organizations, gender-justice organizations, mental health and educational advocates in Baltimore, and those working to preserve Black churches. #GrantAlert

How do you measure progress before outcomes are visible? New @bridgespangroup.bsky.social report features LV co-founder & CEO @ariaflorant.bsky.social on evaluating "the how." 🔗 www.bridgespan.org/insights/eva... #FunderTips #BlackPhilanthropyMonth

Land loss started for Black Americans with the government’s broken “40 acres” promise to formerly enslaved people. It didn’t stop there: Eminent domain, overtaxation, and racist laws have worsened the wealth gap. What would it take to give reparations?

How do you calculate what's owed for slavery? Cities, counties, and states are figuring it out.

Calls for reparations were ignored for decades. But in some cities, outrage turned into action and local governments started taking up the cause.

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The reparations movement is growing & it’s only going to get larger as we continue to build the infrastructure, organizing tactics, and narrative change that show how reparations are commonplace and common sense. Read more @therootdotcom.bsky.social 🔗 www.theroot.com/these-cities... #Reparations

Liberation Ventures + America, Who Hurt You? present a special matinee on Martha's Vineyard. 📍 Martha's Vineyard 🗓️ Aug 11 ✍️ Written & performed by Sarah Jones 🎬 Directed by Eric Ting 🔗 RSVP: tinyurl.com/awhymv #Reparations #CultureOfRepair

Today marks the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. At Liberation Ventures, we are building a culture of repair that requires us to protect the power of every vote, and repairing harm, for everyone, whenever it is caused. #VotingRightsAct #Reparations #repair

At LV, our core beliefs guide everything we do: 1. We are accountable to Black healing & thriving. There is no America without Black resilience; there is no repair without Black healing. 2. This journey requires a broad coalition. Racial repair benefits and includes all of us. #CultureOfRepair

"If an institution or city admits it was racist against Black folks in the past, then it’s not affirmative action for them to provide support to make up for that past wrong. That’s repair, and that is constitutional." Read more: rollingout.com/2026/08/01/j... #Reparations #Repair

Attorney Justin Hansford Fights for Reparations and Justice

Attorney Justin Hansford talks reparations, civil rights and the fight for justice in this Rolling Out interview.

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August grants round-up is here ✨ This month's grants are investing in artists, community developers, entrepreneurs, disability justice advocates, and individuals + non-profit organizations focused on community and justice centered work ⬇️ #GrantAlert #FundingOpportunities #CommunityPower

Sunny Hostin connects the dots on The View: efforts to disrupt how the Smithsonian preserves American history are an attempt to avoid what truth-telling demands — a core component of reparations. "Even after 250 years, there's so much repair that needs to be done…” 🎥 ABC/The View #reparations

Mayor Zohran Mamdani says New York City can’t ignore its role in the legacy of slavery. In an exclusive interview with The Root, Charles M. Blow asked whether Mamdani would support cash reparations if New York City’s reparations commission ultimately recommends them.

Last month, LV partnered with @npquarterly.bsky.social for a #WeekOfRepair to spotlight voices from across our movement as part of our work to envision a healed future for America’s 250th.

6 years ago LV launched to accelerate the movement for racial repair. Today we're growing our capacity to meet this moment, welcoming 5 new team members: Amy, George, Charlotte, Jocelyn, and Steve!

July 25th marks what would have been Emmett Till's 85th birthday. #EmmettTill

@indievariablez.bsky.social, VP of Narrative Change at LV joined the ‘Highly Visible & A Little Misunderstood’ podcast to discuss what reparations truly means, why the movement is broader than most people realize, & what a "culture of repair" means in everyday life: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCog...

Beyond “Cut the Check” | Reparations & a Culture of Repair w/ Amity Paye

YouTube video by Highly Visble & A Little Misunderstood

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A full-time job should be enough to live on—but for too many Americans, it isn’t. Former CEO Nicole Pesco speaks out on how the American Dream is failing working people.

Read her op-ed in @npquarterly.bsky.social (in partnership with @liberationventures.bsky.social): nonprofitquarterly.org/taxing-the-r...

Taxing the Rich Is Incomplete Without Repair | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

A thriving society requires both taxing concentrated wealth and repairing the harms of slavery.

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What happens after acknowledgement? Yesterday was Black Women's Equal Pay Day. Black women are typically paid 65 cents for every $1 paid to white men. Over a career, that's $1.1M+ lost. Equal pay closes today's gap. Reparations address the centuries of exclusion that created it. We need both.

50+ years after James Forman demanded reparations from Riverside Church, Black congregations nationwide are reviving the call through "Reparations Sunday" — sermons, teach-ins, and vigils reframing repair as a sacred obligation, not just a political one: wordinblack.com/2026/05/repa...

6 years ago, Asheville, NC approved reparations, focusing on housing & wealth. Despite political shifts, the RSAA continues the work. Reparations is a journey, and community persistence ensures healing moves forward. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. [Photo courtesy of Nathan Posner/Rex/Shutterstock]

Reparations extend far beyond financial compensation. “It’s not just about payment. It is about engaging in good faith with the descendants of enslaved people and addressing inequalities – to make a better future possible.” Read more: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... #Reparations

More than money: the logic of slavery reparations | Olivette Otele

It’s not just about payment. It is about engaging in good faith with the descendants of enslaved people and addressing inequalities – to make a better future possible

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For many descendants of enslaved Africans, an apology for the transatlantic slave trade isn’t justice. As #reparations demands grow, they argue that acknowledgment without real action does nothing to repair generations of harm, displacement, and exploitation. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...

Ghana slavery apology: Why many descendants say words are not enough

Descendants of enslaved Africans say symbolic apologies cannot repair generations of loss and injustice.

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“We must build the political will & moral clarity to intentionally address past & continuing harms in the US—particularly the pervasive & insidious nature of anti-Black racial harm." - Aria Florant, CEO and Co-founder of LV for @npquarterly.bsky.social 🔗 nonprofitquarterly.org/building-a-c...

To truly honor American history during our 250th anniversary, we must reimagine a democracy rooted in reparations. #America250 #Reparations

As the country approaches its 250th anniversary, we’re challenging the idea that reparations are too complicated, too controversial, or too politically difficult to pursue.