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The Grassroots Reparations Campaign
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Our Vision

We envision a world that is accountable for past harms including slavery, colonialism, genocide, and other material and moral abuses.  These past harms create the present conditions in which we live and impact our future.  We envision a world where reconciliation is possible because racism is no more.

Our Mission

We uplift faith-based, healing and ethically centered frameworks that demand accountability to the history and current world created by slavery. We aim to create a culture of reparations that emerges from spiritual practice, transformative education and action. 

The Campaign

The Grassroots Reparations Campaign is a program of The Truth Telling Project.  We work with those who have been doing reparations work for decades before us. We partner with faith-based and ethically oriented social justice organizations:  the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America’s (N'COBRA),  Fellowship of Reconciliation Atlanta , Community of Living Traditions , Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility,) Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, Center for Jubilee, Reconciliation and Healing, Racial Justice Rising, Coming to the Table and  Coming to the Table RVA.  

Our Values

  • Pan Africanism
  • Political Autonomy
  • Collective Struggle and Accountability
  • Indigeneity
  • Intersectionality
  • Black Feminism
  • Decoloniality
  • Human Dignity
  • Peace
  • Internationalism

Success

Success looks like the creation of a  culture of accountability and repair, where faith and ethically centered communities have committed, en masse, to making their organizations and communities accountable - ReparationsChurches; ReparationSangha etc., by adopting #RepararationSundays and Saturdays etc as a part of their spiritual practice.  This grassroots campaign hopes to mobilize America’s faithful and Social Justice movements to demand reparations for Blacks in America. 

Our Story

In 2017, the Truth Telling Project, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and Fellowship of Reconciliation began  thinking about reparations as a way to accomplish racial healing and justice. This effort was led by Senior Bayard Rustin Fellow, Dr. David Ragland, International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) International Coordinator the Reverend Lucas Johnson, and Chrissi Jackson, Co-founder and former Co-Director of the Truth Telling Project.  The campaign was titled, “FOR National Grassroots Truth and Reparations Campaign,” and with the Truth Telling Project we emphasized the need to speak and hear the truth about the original sins of genocide, slavery, and post-slavery forms of systemic racism. Arguing that reparations is the midpoint between truth and reconciliation, we have engaged in interfaith consciousness raising about the need for reparations. We have reached out to leaders of faith organizations, healing organizations, and social justice organizations. As well as critical reflection and consciousness-raising, our end goal is for white-dominated organizations to form reparative relationships with Black-led grassroots organizations that will define what reparations looks like for them.

What We Believe

The Grassroots Reparations Campaign envisions a world that is accountable for past harms including slavery, colonialism, genocide, and other material and moral abuses. We uplift faith-based, healing and ethically centered frameworks that demand accountability to the history and current world created by slavery. We aim to create a culture of reparations that emerges from spiritual practice, transformative education and action. The Five Dimensions of Reparations identified by the United Nations in the document, “The Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Gross Human Rights Violations” guides our work. 

CAMPAIGN TEAM

  • David Ragland, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director of The Truth Telling Project and Grassroots Reparations Campaign Director. 
  • Latriece Clark , Grassroots Reparations Campaign Coordinator and a Ph.D. Candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute 
  • Jodie Geddes, Campaign Co-Lead, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth Circle Manager and Board Chair for Coming to the Table 
  • Sherly Fabre, United Nations Representative for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation
  • Melinda Salazar, Co-Executive Director of the Truth Telling Project and Seacoast Peace Academy
  • Woullard Lett, N'COBRA Education male, Co-chair  and the Eastern Region lead for the Universalist Unitarian Association 
  • Danita Roundtree-Green, Co-CEO of  Coming to the Table RVA. Danita is also an author and storyteller.  
  • Lotte Dula is the lead organizer for Reparations For Slavery 
  • Max Hess, Atlanta Fellowship of Reconciliation 
  • Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Board chair for the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity 



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