Thanksgiving celebrations open a unique spiritual season that extends through Christmastime. I find this in the congregation where I worship and pastor, certainly, but also among my diverse friend group and wider community. The act of giving thanks is fundamental enough that common spirit can burst forth between the grieving and the joyful, the rich...

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...

DETROIT, MI — Reparation Generation (RepGen), a national nonprofit committed to advancing federal reparations and demonstrating reparations in action, will launch its third round of the Home Ownership Reparative Transfer (HORT) Program in Metro Detroit this September. HORT 3.0 will offer $25,000 Reparative Transfers and homebuyer mentorship, and restorative genealogy consultation to Black Descendants of...

RepGen Supports Reparations Now Resolution RepGen endorsed and supported the Reparations Now Resolution, introduced in May by U.S. Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA). The resolution calls for federal reparations for the descendants of enslaved Black people. “As a descendant of my enslaved ancestors, I am deeply humbled to reintroduce the Reparations Now Resolution,” Rep. Lee said...

Announcing HORT 3.0 We are thrilled to announce that the third iteration of our Home Ownership Reparative Transfer program will be launching in late summer or early fall. Our HORT program both addresses America’s racial wealth gap and generates a sense of stability, place and belonging for recipients. HORT provides one-time $25,000 Reparative Transfers and...

ED Christian Harris speaks at Blackroots Alliance event RepGen Executive Director Christian Harris spoke at the Blackroots Alliance’s Community Conversation: Road to Reparations event on May 10 joining revered leaders and trailblazers working at the vanguard of reparations efforts across the state of Illinois and city of Chicago. The event was both a conversation and...

I hope that you had a happy and reflective Juneteenth.  I spent Juneteenth with my family and found myself reflecting on my oldest known ancestor, Fountain Blackwell, born in 1807 and enslaved, as well as my ancestors who were, in fact, enslavers. It has taken me a while to admit that they, the enslavers, are...

Roadmap to Repair Conference  Representatives from RepGen attended the Asset Funders Network: Roadmap to Repair Conference in Oakland, California. This conference explored how a culture of repair can inspire new models of philanthropy. It was great to be surrounded by people who share a common goal of advancing economic justice and racial equity. House Meetings...