reparations
Repairing the redlined body of Christ
My church wanted to participate in our city’s reparations efforts. We began in our archives.
What is forgiveness?
Myisha Cherry and Matthew Ichihashi Potts each challenge a new American mythology.
On Native land
Land acknowledgments can do a lot of good—if they’re rooted in solid process and relationships.
The forced migration of Native Americans pushed them to inferior land
A recent study illuminates the economic cost of land theft. What might reparations look like?
The book of Exodus includes a story about reparations for slavery
White Americans aren’t the Israelites; we’re the Egyptians. Maybe we should follow their lead.
An evangelical Christian argument for reparations
Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson want to talk about theft.
Georgetown was built on the backs of enslaved people
Reparations for their descendants are a necessary, imperfect beginning.
How Princeton Seminary’s slavery audit created moments of unlikely intimacy
We need structural change. We also need to be willing to be personally undone.
Reparations would help close the staggering racial wealth gap
William Darity and Kirsten Mullen make the case for finally addressing a great wrong.
Reparations is a spiritual issue
No full reparation for slavery can ever be made. We should try anyway.
The point of talking about reparations is to reckon with generations of racial injustice
HR 40 is about more than money. It’s about grappling with history.
Exodus, reparations, and a speech we should remember
Once again, the epic drama of slavery and freedom is upon us. No, I’m not referring to Ferguson, although others have written extensively on links there to the nation’s history of bondage, legal violence, and avoidance of justice. While others protest, this weekend millions of moviegoers will behold Exodus: Gods and Kings. “Let my people go” will square off against law and order. The fish will die; so will the first born males. The Red Sea will separate, for a time, and then its crashing waters will destroy an army.
Exodus has been with Americans since the nation’s birth.
Twice as good vs. thrice as fast
If you haven't read Ta-Nehisi Coates's cover story in the current Atlantic, do. Coates surveys the history of white supremacy in America, with a particular focus on housing policy in one Chicago neighborhood, and calls us to do what we've never really done: seriously consider what it might take to make it right.
The headline is "The Case for Reparations," but Coates doesn't name a dollar amount or even argue that payment is the main goal.