When RepGen contributors and House Meeting hosts Joni Tedesco and Marie Lowry tell their origin stories, themes familiar to so many white American families emerge: mobility through military service, migration bolstered by GI Bill home loans and education benefits, and the promise of wealth that could grow across generations. Joni and Marie have spent decades...

For the first 56 years of her life, Reparationist and Reparation Generation (RepGen) supporter Lotte Lieb Dula believed she knew herself. The product of a progressive,, upper-middle-class family, with ancestral roots in New England, she was proud of her origin story and never had reason to question how her family had achieved success.  “I grew...

It might seem unusual to wonder if reparations can flow from a jar, but that is exactly what the living descendants of “Dave the Potter” are trying to find out. Dave, born sometime around 1800, was first enslaved by Edgefield, South Carolina businessman Henry Drake. The Drake family helped put Edgefield on the map as...