Below you will find resources to learn more about reparations. As you begin to engage in looking at reparations be sure to also listen for and seek out ways individuals and organizations are beginning to provide reparations. We all have a place in this work to educate ourselves about it and then start acting on it.
- A historical look at reparations that have been paid.
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. describes what happened to the original attempt at reparations for the newly freed enslaved in America. Be sure to read to the end to see the irony.
- Learn about the Black Manifesto given at the Riverside Church, the 1969 demand for reparations from white churches and synagogues by black activist James Forman, the former Executive Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and one of the key leaders of the 1964 Freedom Summer.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2014 argument for reparations that spurred the recent focus.
- A description from NPR of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights’ stance on reparations.
- Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb discusses Judaism and reparations in this video.
- The founder of this portal, Lotte Lieb Dula, created it after learning of her family’s slaveholding. She sees it as “A Portal for White Americans Walking the Path of Racial Healing.”
- An article about Green Street Meeting’s Reparations.
- Many opportunities for learning and doing with N’COBRA, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. There’s even a Philadelphia Chapter.
- Grass Roots Reparations: This is the organization that offers a 5-week intensive course on “Building a Culture of Reparations” discovered and taken by Green Street’ Reparations Committee and then recommended to and taken by Abington’s Reparations Committee.
- Abington’s Road to Reparations
