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Join us on Saturday September 13th 2025 from 12pm-230pm at Blackstone Public Library (4904 South Lake Park Avenue Chicago Illinois 60615), for our Community Conversation on the feature documentary, A BINDING TRUTH. In collaboration with RepGen, we will watch the documentary and take time for conversation. This is a multiracial conversation meant to inspire each other to talk with open hearts, and set the table for meaningful conversations about race, justice, reparations and the truth of our slave history in America. Together, we will delve into the paths forward, the power of reconciliation, and the importance of healing and repair.
Popcorn and snacks will be provided.
A BINDING TRUTH Summary: Jimmie and De were high school classmates in 1965. Jimmie transferred his senior year from an all-Black high school to an affluent white high school in Charlotte, where he was their first Black football star. That decision swept him into one of North Carolina’s most volatile civil rights cases, played out at the explosive intersection of football and race. De watched that case unfold and wrote about it in his college essay application. Decades later, a shocking discovery reveals secrets found buried in church records that would change their lives. Their story, rooted in the South, is also America’s story–one of slavery’s legacy and our current racial divide. It’s a story of healing and shows a way forward as Jimmie and De explore their binding truth.
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Reparations4Slavery’s Lotte Lieb Dula and Reparation Generation’s Karen Hughes will lead a workshop that will explore the role of housing in the racial wealth gap. They will provide meaning and context to the systematic exclusion of many Black Americans from the intergenerational wealth-building opportunities that homeownership provides. In this workshop we’ll explore the mechanisms creating the gap using our own childhood neighborhoods as the starting point for research, introspection, and discussion.
This 2 ½ hour workshop includes a lecture, video, two person mini-research projects, small breakout groups, and moderated group discussion.
Note: This virtual, fast-paced workshop is designed for white people who have committed to the path of repair, have done some family research, and understand the benefits afforded of white privilege and those who have found links to slavery, and its many afterlife vestiges.
Space is limited and you must register to attend.
To participate in this program, attendees must make a reparative pledge, prior to the workshop. Your pledge should be a meaningful reparative payment, which you decide, but not less than the minimum pledge of $1,000. Pledges are due by the end of the course. All pledges from this workshop will go to investing in the direct reparative wealth transfers of Reparation Generation’s Home Ownership Reparative (HORT) 3.0. We are looking to provide $50,000 in reparative wealth transfers from this workshop. You can make your contribution here.
While formal government reparations are the goal, Reparation Generation is compelled to act now to demonstrate forms of repair which can make the country we love more just, fair, and inclusive. We invite you to gather with others from around the country in this spirit. Every other month we host a “Meet RepGen” Virtual House meeting where we share our “reparations in action” approach and how this advances the broader reparation movement. In the months in between we host a “Reparations Deep Dive” where we delve into a particular topic of importance related to RepGen’s work or the reparations movement at large. We invite you to sign up for one of our virtual house meetings below!
Join us for a powerful conversation exploring the intersection of fatih and Reparations, both through sacred texts and lived practice. Our panel will feature Pastah J, Rev. Lowell Taylor and Rev. Dustin McGowan, each offering insights on how their faith traditions confront historic harm, justice, and repair.
Together, we will examine how spiritual teachings have informed movements for reparations across time, and what they demand of us today. The event will include a rich discussion followed by an open Q&A, providing space for collective reflection and deeper understanding.
Come be part of a gathering that bridges faith, justice, and action.
While formal government reparations are the goal, Reparation Generation is compelled to act now to demonstrate forms of repair which can make the country we love more just, fair, and inclusive. We invite you to gather with others from around the country in this spirit. Every other month we host a “Meet RepGen” Virtual House meeting where we share our “reparations in action” approach and how this advances the broader reparation movement.
Talking about reparations can feel risky — especially across racial, moral, or political lines. But these are exactly the conversations that matter most. In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore how to speak with clarity and courage when the stakes are high. Whether you’re navigating discussions with skeptical White relatives, politically divided colleagues, or folks unsure where they stand, you’ll leave with practical tools, grounded language, and a stronger sense of purpose. Together, we’ll practice turning tension into understanding — and discomfort into momentum for justice.
While formal government reparations are the goal, Reparation Generation is compelled to act now to demonstrate forms of repair which can make the country we love more just, fair, and inclusive. We invite you to gather with others from around the country in this spirit. Every other month we host a “Meet RepGen” Virtual House meeting where we share our “reparations in action” approach and how this advances the broader reparation movement.
