Collective Reparations

The Redress Movement is excited to announce that we are looking to expand our team! We are looking for strategic, mission-driven, experienced individuals who are dedicated to supporting our groundbreaking work redressing deep and longstanding systems of segregation. If that sounds like you, or you're interested in reading more about the roles, you can go to our website: https://lnkd.in/euz3ke7X

Our first episode is live on Podbean! Please share! It will be arriving on other platforms very soon! Produced by Wayne.wav and Truth Telling Project! https://lnkd.in/e--k8jR8

Happening today! Catch Vikas Maturi, LV's Chief of Staff, presenting on this panel at Stanford. https://lnkd.in/e-2wjpzJ

“We did not own the land, we belonged to it.” This Nonprofit Quarterly article highlights stories of land reclamation and healing justice from 2023, and articulates "how land recovery (described within the frameworks of land rematriation and land reclamation) can be a healing process, how land can anchor power building." Including news from the Winnemem Wintu Tribe and grantee partners Sogorea Te Land Trust, Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples among others, this comprehensive read underlines the reasons why supporting land return is a multi-impactful approach to supporting Indigenous nations and BIPOC communities. https://lnkd.in/gppeJ68y #SpiritualEcology

Preparing syllabi for 2024 courses? Check 2023 new edition of my Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury) with further readings suggestions, transcribed primary sources, and new chapter on the newer developments on reparations (controversies included).

The Truth Telling Project proudly announces the 8th #cohort of our #premier #course, "#Building a #Culture of #Reparations" beginning #January 21, 2024. This year's 7-week (#virtual) #course will include #specialized #tracks for #educators, #racialjustice #investors, and #faithbased #communities. #Register - https://lnkd.in/ez8V7_K5 This course includes the #spiritual #dimension of #reparations from the #perspective of #faith-#based and #ethically oriented #traditions, the #history of #reparations and its #major #figures, and the #moral and #psychological #benefits of #reparations. Part 1 is an #introduction to the #conceptual and #theoretical #foundation of #reparations and the #history and #current #intellectual #discourse. Part 2 #explores this deeply #critical and #historic #moment in #time and looks at the #movement on the #ground through #casestudies, #campaigns, and an #emergent #public #pedagogy that attracts people into the #spiritual, #ethical, and #political #possibilities for #accountability and #socialtransformation. #RegisterNow - https://lnkd.in/ez8V7_K5 David Ragland Melinda Salazar Jennifer L. Craig Nicole Carty Dr. Tiffany Crutcher Tai Amri Spann-Ryan Arthur Romano Talia Carroll, Ph.D. Woullard Lett Woullard Lett Cris Toffolo Dreisen H. Liz Farmer Reparations Now Reparations For Slavery NAACP Amel Ali Beloved Community Laura Bergus Annie Tucker Jena K. Kitchen, MS Ved Price Susannah Bannon, Ph.D. Meg Galindo Allison Lopez andy williams jr. Marcus Kelley D. Ramonte Rawls

I was proud to lead Black Veterans Project in taking part in a coalition of civil rights and advocacy organizations that helped actualize the formation of a New York Reparations Commission. The Commission will research the harm from slavery and after slavery, including racial discrimination, in New York and recommend remedies and reparations. Black Veterans Project applauds Governor Kathy Hochul, Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages and Senator James Sanders Jr. for their steadfast leadership in the passage of this historic legislation and for the invitation to attend the bill’s signing this week at The New York Historical Society. “Over four centuries, New York has engaged in a systematic project to undermine the self-determination of Black New Yorkers through social, political and economic subjugation. From the institution of slavery to de jure discrimination through segregation, vast divestment and mass incarceration -- state-sanctioned anti-Black racism has resulted in a 15 to 1 racial wealth gap encapsulating generations of harm. The Reparations Commission will serve as a crucial step toward repair while beating back nefarious attempts at historical erasure that seek to thwart a reckoning in actualizing equity and justice for all. We salute the decades of intergenerational grassroots activists and community organizers that have made this commission possible." — Richard Brookshire, CEO Black Veterans Project Check out the press release: https://lnkd.in/ekb33DZB Learn more at: ny4reparations.org https://lnkd.in/ez7j5CAr

THE Cxffeeblack BARISTA EXCHANGE PROGRAM Aye fam!! It’s official, PHASE 1 is complete! AND we got 23 applicants from 5 different African countries who’ve applied for PHASE 2. In the world of coffee, this program isn’t just an exchange – it’s a movement to reshape history, strengthen bonds, and empower communities. Depicted in this video are THE first and oldest coffee community on our planet, the true, indigenous, definition of coffee nerds, the Gadaa system of the Oromo people in Ethiopia. The brew being prepared is called Buna Qalaa, and is definitely the single most paradigm shifting coffee methodology we’ve ever experienced: bar none. It is seen here administered by the Aba Gadas, democratically expected spiritual leaders, and Hade Siiqees, matriarchal strongholds of the community and key figures in safeguarding justice and coffee rituals. This the indigenous legacy in coffee the world has been missing, and we are so excited to share this with you all as we build the exchange! Major shout out to our cousins @quluucoffee for coordinating this experience. Cannot wait for y’all to see the rest of the film. 🤩🎞️ If you’re as passionate as we are about this mission, consider joining the movement and experiencing the rich exchange that coffee has to offer. Info to donate and purchase new fundraising merch with the homies at MiiR is live on the site now. Check the link bio to and visit the #antigentrificationcoffeeclub to support this program and get updates on program recipients. https://lnkd.in/eAWDA-s3 Phase 1: [COMPLETE] Phase 2: The second half of the exchange will see four African baristas being flown out to Memphis for two weeks in the spring of 2024 to prototype culturally content business models in coffee and train at the Anti-Gentrification Cxffee Club, ending in a trip to visit other melanated coffee shops around the country. 🎥: Zaire Love 🎵: Gold On Me (unreleased): by Bartholomew Jones x UNAPOLOGETIC. Darrell Lee Smith x Hd3beats x James Dukes x AWFM x PreauXX x Kid Maestro

We’ve officially wrapped SEASON ONE of LANDBACK For the People! 🎧🎙️🎉 Throughout 2023, LBFTP host, Nick Tilsen, invited movers and shakers across the #LANDBACK movement to dive into the current landscape of the fight to return land to Indigenous hands and how Indigenous people from all over the world are coming together to see a liberated future. ✊🏽🌎🪶⚡️ NDN Collective is honored to celebrate the stories we’ve shared with all of our Relatives because of the launch of this show. We thank each and every one of you for making this first season a shared experience and SUCCESS. 🙌🏽 Sending our NDN communities across Turtle Island and beyond good medicine for all that we’ve endured thus far, and prayers for our continued ferocity to see us thrive unapologetically, forevermore! ❤️🩹 ⚡️ Stream Season One NOW: • YouTube: ndnco.cc/NDNPodcasts • Spotify: ndnco.cc/LBFTPs • Apple Podcasts: ndnco.cc/LPFTPa • SoundCloud: ndnco.cc/LBFTPsc • Audible: ndnco.cc/LBFTPad • Website: landback.org/podcasts 🗣️ Let us know what your favorite episode was this season in the comments!👇🏽👇🏽 Stay tuned, Season Two coming in 2024. . . 👀 #LANDBACKFTP #LBFTPpod #NDNCollective

"We are resilient, adaptable, innovative, and persistent. We have been forced to adjust and accommodate to the detriment of the very ecosystems and knowledge systems that comprise our ways of life." - Nicole Davies Thankful for this important reminder of the Indigenous ways of life that predate police and prisons, pesticides and pipelines, and it is a promise that these worlds are possible again. #LandBack #LandSovereignty #FoodSovereignty #LandJustice #FoodJustice https://lnkd.in/g_NMWitm