Movement Leaders Dream Big for Reparations
Movement leaders talk about what reparations means to them and how to achieve it.
What would activists, organizers, and leaders do if they could “wave a magic wand” to help realize reparations?
Sonali Kohatgar, host of “Rising up with Sonali,” speaks with participants at the Alight, Align, Arise conference on the issue of reparations and how it can be achieved.
Despite continued resistance at the federal level to provide reparations to descendants of enslaved Africans, the United States does have a history of issuing reparations — reparations were issued to Japanese Americans who were unjustly detained during World War II. In fact, when enslaved people were emancipated, the US government issued reparations to former slaveholders in recognition of the loss of their “property.” Yet the US continues to lack the political will to seriously consider making reparations to Black Americans.
Here are links to some of the organizations represented in the video.
Media 2070: (mediareparations.org) – Examining the history of anti-Black harm in the US media system.
The Decolonizing Wealth Project: (decolonizingwealth.com) – Working for truth, reconciliation, and the healing of our global family from the ails of colonization through education, radical reparative giving, and storytelling.
The National Black Cultural Information Trust: (nbcit.org) – Utilizing cultural communications, media, education, storytelling, and community events to share information and resources that uplift the collective freedom of Black communities.
About Reparations: (www.aboutreparations.org) – We share cultural information, stories, and resources that uplift the collective freedom of Black communities, while correcting cultural misinformation.
BLD PWR Productions: (www.bldpwr.com) – Social architects that shift culture by building community and producing stories rooted in authenticity, healing, and freedom for Black and Indigenous people.
The Taifa Group: (www.thetaifagroup.com) – A dynamic social enterprise firm whose mission is to advance justice.
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America: (ncobra.org) – Working in the legislative arena to achieve reparations for African Americans.
Marijuana Justice: (www.marijuanajustice.org) – Organizing for equitable legalization as a gateway to dismantle the War on Drugs.
Liberation Ventures: (www.liberationventures.org) – A team of strategists, storytellers, and organizers who believe that Black power, joy, and resources are a precondition to collective prosperity.
Reparations Finance Lab: (reparationsfinancelab.org) – Dedicated to encouraging and facilitating private sector allocation of reparative capital to the descendants of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade globally.
Equity and Transformation Chicago: (www.eatchicago.org) – Building social and economic equity for Black workers engaged in the informal economy: the economic activities, enterprises, jobs, and workers that are not regulated or protected by the state.
Black Voters Matter: (blackvotersmatterfund.org) – To increase power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities.
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