Here’s some great news! Reparation Generation is now a newly-formed California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation. We are excited to take this next step in our journey and are partnering with Movement Alliance Project (MAP), as our new Fiscal Sponsor. Under this new structure, RepGen will operate as an independent nonprofit with our own governance structure...

Reparation Generation has always believed in the importance of evaluation and evidence-based data for real-time program improvement and for understanding and making the case for reparations. Our Black founders set out to create Reparations in Action models that build intergenerational wealth and help heal harm for Black American descendants of chattel slavery in the US....

“Next thing you know, I was on the waiting list. Then I went from number two to number one. Then I end up getting it (enrolled in HORT) and I was so happy. That was the best day of my life!” – Homeownership Reparative Transfer Recipient Since its founding, Reparation Generation has sought to support...

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...