The national discourse around reparations has simmered in the United States for more than 200 hundred years.
How can we move this forward?
On August 10 & 11, 2020, amidst a national reckoning on racial injustice and inequity, Urban Consulate presented a two-night, cross-city journey to understand our history and imagine the future.
Curated & hosted by Naimah Bilal, this virtual experience was designed to encourage deeper understanding around historical attempts and effects of reparations, illustrate current manifestations of reparations and their impacts, and spur imagination & connection toward personal & collective action.
Read on below for guiding questions & resources.
WATCH THE VIDEOS
A. Kirsten Mullen & William A. Darity, Jr.
From Here to Equality:
Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
8-9 pm ET
BREAKOUT DIALOGUE
GUIDING QUESTIONS
What does reparation mean?
What’s the purpose of reparation?
Why is reparation necessary?
Why is this a mainstream topic now?
What have reparations to other Americans looked like?
How have other countries approached reparations?
What are current manifestations of reparations?
Why must reparation address structural issues?
What are the economics of reparation?
Why are reparations meaningless without civil rights enforcement?
What forms of reparation speak to you?
What could reparation look like?
RESOURCES
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (William A. Darity, Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen)
H.R. 40: Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act (2019)
Hearing on Slavery Reparations (U.S. House of Representatives, 2019)
The Case for Reparations (Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 2014)
What is Owed? (Nikole Hannah Jones, The New York Times Magazine, 2020)
The 1619 Project (Nikole Hannah Jones, The New York Times Magazine, 2019)
The 1619 Project Curriculum (Pulitzer Center, 2019)
The 1619 Podcast (New York Times, 2019)
400 Years of Inequality Timeline (Dr. Mindy Fullilove et al)
Why We Need Reparations for Black Americans (Andre Perry & Rashawn Ray, Brookings Institution, 2020)
A Call for Reparations (Nikole Hannah Jones, Fresh Air, NPR, 2020)
Into Reparations (Trymaine Lee & Nikole Hannah Jones, Into America, 2020)
A Slow Convert to the Cause (David Brooks, The New York Times, 2019)
Bryan Stevenson on How America Can Heal (The Ezra Klein Show, July 2020)
TWITTER THREADS
GRAPHIC RECORDING
By Drawnversation
ADVOCACY & ACTION
Reparations for Slavery Now
American Civil Liberties Union
PERSONAL REFLECTION
EVENT CONTRIBUTORS
