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Liberation Ventures is working to make reparations for Black Americans common sense and commonplace in our lifetime.
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LV’s Co-founder and CEO, Aria Florant, joins Ruti Teitel on CNN International with Christiane Amanpour to discuss the urgent need for U.S. reparations and how to build a culture of repair after this harmful political era. Tune in to CNN today at 1pm ET! 🤎
December 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
LV’s Co-founder and CEO, Aria Florant, joins Ruti Teitel on CNN International with Christiane Amanpour to discuss the urgent need for U.S. reparations and how to build a culture of repair after this harmful political era. Tune in to CNN today at 1pm ET! 🤎
We honor Mrs. Lessie Benningfield Randle and the late Ms. Viola Ford Fletcher—two of the last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, each reaching 111 years old. Their lives remind us that repair requires both remembrance and action. Learn more about their legacies: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Viola Ford Fletcher, oldest survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, dies aged 111
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is regarded as one of the worst episodes of racial violence in US history.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
We honor Mrs. Lessie Benningfield Randle and the late Ms. Viola Ford Fletcher—two of the last survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, each reaching 111 years old. Their lives remind us that repair requires both remembrance and action. Learn more about their legacies: www.bbc.com/news/article...
The newly digitized “Riot to Repair” archive holds 55+ audio interviews & stories from LA residents on the 2020 uprisings and media’s impact on Black communities. A public record of grief, memory, care, and resistance. Explore the archive here: mediareparations.org/riot-to-repa...
Riot to Repair: Community Archives on Media and Narrative Power - Media 2070
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December 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The newly digitized “Riot to Repair” archive holds 55+ audio interviews & stories from LA residents on the 2020 uprisings and media’s impact on Black communities. A public record of grief, memory, care, and resistance. Explore the archive here: mediareparations.org/riot-to-repa...
Liberation Ventures is at the nation’s largest gathering on state and local reparations, the First Repair Symposium, where leaders are advancing practical strategies for repair. Key developments from this convening will shape the next phase of the field. firstrepair.org/symposium-20...
Evanston National Reparations Symposium 2025 - FirstRepair
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December 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Liberation Ventures is at the nation’s largest gathering on state and local reparations, the First Repair Symposium, where leaders are advancing practical strategies for repair. Key developments from this convening will shape the next phase of the field. firstrepair.org/symposium-20...
Descendant-led efforts to reclaim African American burial grounds show that remembrance is repair. Healing begins when we honor our ancestors and tell the full truth. Read more: reparationscomm.org/reparations-...
Rediscovery of African American burial grounds provides long-overdue opportunities for collective healing
By Joanna Gilmore, The Conversation — In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African descent were uncovered in the heart of downtown Charleston, South Carolina. T...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Descendant-led efforts to reclaim African American burial grounds show that remembrance is repair. Healing begins when we honor our ancestors and tell the full truth. Read more: reparationscomm.org/reparations-...
Long before reparations entered the mainstream, Rep. John Conyers, Jr. led the way. His legacy reminds us that repair is generational—and justice is persistent. Read more: www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/ho...
The Honorable John Conyers, Jr.'s Biography
Check out this story from The HistoryMakers featuring The Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Long before reparations entered the mainstream, Rep. John Conyers, Jr. led the way. His legacy reminds us that repair is generational—and justice is persistent. Read more: www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/ho...
The NAACP calls for repair to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for decades of harm. Repair means accountability, restitution, and a future where frontline communities can thrive: naacp.org/resources/ad...
Advancing a Future that Centers Climate Reparations
NAACP will continue to advocate domestically and globally for climate reparations, recovery, and resources that reflects a recognition of the decades of extraction and disinvestment that created the c...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The NAACP calls for repair to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for decades of harm. Repair means accountability, restitution, and a future where frontline communities can thrive: naacp.org/resources/ad...
The new play Reparations asks: how do we repair slavery’s harms? Through art and truth, it invites us to imagine justice and collective liberation anew. Go check it out tonight in NYC: reparationsstageplay.us
Reparations Stage Play
The official site for the Reparations stage play. Learn about the story, creative team, and find performance dates. Book your seats today.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The new play Reparations asks: how do we repair slavery’s harms? Through art and truth, it invites us to imagine justice and collective liberation anew. Go check it out tonight in NYC: reparationsstageplay.us
At Liberation Ventures’ May Gathering, repair became practice. Centering love and accountability, we examined how our actions, together, shape a culture where harm is met with care and liberation is bound together.
#Reparations
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#Reparations
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Liberation Ventures - 5th Anniversary Gathering
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November 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
At Liberation Ventures’ May Gathering, repair became practice. Centering love and accountability, we examined how our actions, together, shape a culture where harm is met with care and liberation is bound together.
#Reparations
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#Reparations
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The struggle for a Third Reconstruction is the struggle for repair, justice, and multiracial democracy. Honoring the legacies of marginalized communities is essential to building a fair and just society. Read how bold action today can reshape tomorrow: nonprofitquarterly.org/why-the-stru...
Why the Struggle for a Third Reconstruction Remains the Struggle for Our Times | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
At a time of racial justice backlash, a call for a full-throated multiracial democracy may seem audacious—it’s also a necessary movement to preserve US democracy at all.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The struggle for a Third Reconstruction is the struggle for repair, justice, and multiracial democracy. Honoring the legacies of marginalized communities is essential to building a fair and just society. Read how bold action today can reshape tomorrow: nonprofitquarterly.org/why-the-stru...
Bryan Stevenson shows that repair isn’t optional. His memorials, museums, and sanctuaries confront slavery, lynching, and mass incarceration, restore dignity and legacy. Read how one person is turning truth-telling into justice: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told
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November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Bryan Stevenson shows that repair isn’t optional. His memorials, museums, and sanctuaries confront slavery, lynching, and mass incarceration, restore dignity and legacy. Read how one person is turning truth-telling into justice: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
The MFA Boston returned David Drake’s vessels to his descendants; a powerful act of repair. Real justice restores legacy, agency, and ownership. Restitution is how systems honor the past and shape a fairer future. Read more: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
MFA Boston Restitutes Two Ceramic Vessels to Descendants of Enslaved Artist David Drake
The MFA Boston has restituted two ceramic vessels to the descendants of enslaved artist David Drake, repurchasing one for its collection.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The MFA Boston returned David Drake’s vessels to his descendants; a powerful act of repair. Real justice restores legacy, agency, and ownership. Restitution is how systems honor the past and shape a fairer future. Read more: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Race Forward’s Just Narratives for Multiracial Solidarity 2025 convenes storytellers, strategists & organizers to strengthen the narrative ecosystem for racial justice. Building the stories—and solidarity—needed for a just, multiracial democracy. www.raceforward.org/training-and...
Just Narratives for Multiracial Solidarity | Race Forward
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November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Race Forward’s Just Narratives for Multiracial Solidarity 2025 convenes storytellers, strategists & organizers to strengthen the narrative ecosystem for racial justice. Building the stories—and solidarity—needed for a just, multiracial democracy. www.raceforward.org/training-and...
Evanston’s reparations program shows that governance is repair. Iterative design, transparency, and accountability make reparations sustainable. We champion this model of structural justice.
Link here: evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/03/r...
Link here: evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/03/r...
Reparations Committee finalizes 2025 grant recipients - Evanston RoundTable
The city's Reparations Committee has finalized the number of grant recipients for this year, dolling out $25,000 in cash benefits to 45 ancestors and
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November 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Evanston’s reparations program shows that governance is repair. Iterative design, transparency, and accountability make reparations sustainable. We champion this model of structural justice.
Link here: evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/03/r...
Link here: evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/03/r...
The UK debate on slavery reparations shows repair requires public institutions, not goodwill alone. Lasting accountability demands infrastructure across generations.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The UK debate on slavery reparations shows repair requires public institutions, not goodwill alone. Lasting accountability demands infrastructure across generations.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Detroit’s housing reparations program is repairing generational harm through homeownership. We uplift this work because lasting repair is material, structured, and generationally transformative. #Reparations
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Reparations program offers $25,000 in housing support to Black metro Detroiters
Reparation Generation, a national nonprofit, aims to help Black descendants of enslaved people in the U.S., living in metro Detroit, purchase homes.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Detroit’s housing reparations program is repairing generational harm through homeownership. We uplift this work because lasting repair is material, structured, and generationally transformative. #Reparations
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Election Day is a test of repair. Buttigieg’s call for a “new sense of belonging” echoes the reparations movement: true belonging comes through truth, accountability, and shared investment in systems that honor everyone’s humanity: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...
Opinion | Pete Buttigieg on Rebuilding America After Trump
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November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Election Day is a test of repair. Buttigieg’s call for a “new sense of belonging” echoes the reparations movement: true belonging comes through truth, accountability, and shared investment in systems that honor everyone’s humanity: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...
Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter reminds us that reparations must include cultural repair. Education is narrative power: when history is distorted, justice is stalled. Liberation Ventures uplifts this work because truth-telling is a core condition for repair.
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Reparations and Education: Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter on California’s AB 7 and Social Repair
What role does social repair play in reparations, and how does AB 7 connect to broader legal and historical frameworks?
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October 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter reminds us that reparations must include cultural repair. Education is narrative power: when history is distorted, justice is stalled. Liberation Ventures uplifts this work because truth-telling is a core condition for repair.
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The AAMC Center for Health Justice’s latest reparations report reframes repair as governance: if harm was structured, redress must be too. Durable reparations require infrastructure capable of stewarding justice across generations.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The AAMC Center for Health Justice’s latest reparations report reframes repair as governance: if harm was structured, redress must be too. Durable reparations require infrastructure capable of stewarding justice across generations.
www.aamchealthjustice.org/news/researc....
www.aamchealthjustice.org/news/researc....
The Georgia Supreme Court’s ruling to protect Hogg Hummock affirms a vital truth: land is memory, and preservation is repair. Liberation Ventures celebrates this victory for descendants safeguarding a living Gullah-Geechee legacy. #Reparations
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Georgia's highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community
Georgia's highest court is siding with Black landowners in a zoning dispute affecting a historic Gullah-Geechee community.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Georgia Supreme Court’s ruling to protect Hogg Hummock affirms a vital truth: land is memory, and preservation is repair. Liberation Ventures celebrates this victory for descendants safeguarding a living Gullah-Geechee legacy. #Reparations
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Liberation Ventures uplifts the CA Farmer Justice Collaborative Rural Justice Summit, a space for farmers and advocates to build just, interdependent systems of care and sustainability. Repair begins with those who steward the land.
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Rural Justice Summit 2025 | Cumbre de Justicia Rural 2025
The Rural Justice Summit (RJS) will bring together and center farmers/land ecosystem tenders in both rural and urban areas of California.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Liberation Ventures uplifts the CA Farmer Justice Collaborative Rural Justice Summit, a space for farmers and advocates to build just, interdependent systems of care and sustainability. Repair begins with those who steward the land.
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Liberation Ventures uplifts the Tulsa Black Mental Health Alliance for building a culture of repair. Mental health equity is repair in action. #reparations
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October 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Liberation Ventures uplifts the Tulsa Black Mental Health Alliance for building a culture of repair. Mental health equity is repair in action. #reparations
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California’s new reparations bills create infrastructure for repair. Polling from Liberation Ventures shows 45% support comprehensive reparations— a growing mandate for investment, healing, and accountability statewide.
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Reparations Bills Establish Foundation to Turn California’s Vision Into Reality | KQED
The new laws strengthen California’s commitment to repairing the harms of slavery, signaling a long-term effort that’s gaining power and purpose.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
California’s new reparations bills create infrastructure for repair. Polling from Liberation Ventures shows 45% support comprehensive reparations— a growing mandate for investment, healing, and accountability statewide.
www.kqed.org/news/1206040...
www.kqed.org/news/1206040...
California advances reparations: Gov. Newsom signed 5 bills, including SB 518 to create the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery. Progress builds in stages—each step moves repair from vision to reality.
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Newsom Vetoes Undercut Reparations Gains for Black Descendants in California | KQED
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would have given descendants of enslaved people preferences in college admissions, housing and business programs.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
California advances reparations: Gov. Newsom signed 5 bills, including SB 518 to create the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery. Progress builds in stages—each step moves repair from vision to reality.
www.kqed.org/news/1205960...
www.kqed.org/news/1205960...
In 1838, Georgetown sold 272 enslaved people to survive. Today, its $400K Reconciliation Fund—co-created with Descendant leaders—marks progress toward repair. True reconciliation demands continued investment, shared power, and truth-telling.
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Reconciliation Fund - Georgetown University
The Reconciliation Fund, inspired by a 2019 student referendum, awards $400,000 annually to community-based projects that have direct impact on Descendant communities whose ancestors were once enslave...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
In 1838, Georgetown sold 272 enslaved people to survive. Today, its $400K Reconciliation Fund—co-created with Descendant leaders—marks progress toward repair. True reconciliation demands continued investment, shared power, and truth-telling.
www.georgetown.edu/slavery/reco...
www.georgetown.edu/slavery/reco...