Attention, Detroit! The Detroit Reparations Task Force is seeking your input to shape recommendations that will address past harms to Black residents through housing, economic development, education, and more. Your voice matters in this crucial moment.
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan awarded Reparation Generation a $75,000 grant to support its pilot programs in Detroit. The Organization will use these funds in combination with other funds from individuals around the US to build Reparation Generation’s capacity to execute its current programs and plan for expansion and scaling of its models.
RepGen is thrilled to announce that following a nationwide search, Christian Harris has accepted the newly formed position of Executive Director.
RepGen is preparing to embark on the second phase of our Home Ownership Reparative Transfers (HORT) program pilot this summer. Thanks to your ongoing support, we are prepared to make up to eight additional reparative transfers of $25,000 and assist recipients in the process of finding a home.
A RepGen core value is that we co-learn and co-create together. In that spirit, we expanded our Evaluation Team in March. We also invited all who receive this Newsletter to complete our survey about their 2023 reparations-related engagement. Learn more about our survey results.
As part of this Reparation Generation, applicants must find their connection to descendants of American chattel slavery. Watch as applicants learn for the first time, the history of their enslaved ancestors, and experience some of the healing from lost identity.
Reparation Generation will make $25,000 “reparative transfers” to help people in Detroit buy homes.
These aren’t grants or charitable gifts, the organization is quick to point out, but transfers of wealth from one class to another. Most of the funds came from white people in Berkeley and Los Angeles. The Black leaders of the organization determine the criteria for the payments and to whom they go.
A new nonprofit led by 18 leaders from around the country is raising money to provide reparations for descendants of American slavery, starting with families in Detroit.
Reparation Generation, a national organization providing direct reparative money transfers to Black Americans for wealth-building pursuits, launched a new program that takes a citizen-driven approach to restoration for disenfranchised descendants of American slavery.
Today, Reparation Generation launches as a new, citizen-driven approach to pursuing restoration for disenfranchised descendants of American slavery. They are a multiracial group of Americans proudly joining a national movement for truth and reconciliation. They seek to show reparations in action, and in turn, drive momentum to pass federal reparations for Black Americans.
All of us need to navigate our next individual and community level steps for learning, healing, and effectively advancing reparations. A great way to do this is to join the RepGen House Meeting Coach Squad.
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. At the House Meeting we will share our “reparations in actions” approach and how this advances the broader reparation movement. You will hear from participants about why they joined Reparation Generation and about ways you can participate which include, but are not limited to, committing funds.
Upcoming Virtual Dates:
Sept. 12: Meet Christian Harris, RepGen’s new Executive Director. Submit your questions when you register by Sept. 5.
Oct. 15: Conversation with HORT 1.0 Homeowners two years later
Nov. 14: Post-Election Debrief and Next Steps
Dec. 4: Guest TBD
Upcoming Virtual Dates: Check Back Later
5:00-6:30pm PT (8:00-9:30pm ET)
Building a better future requires honestly confronting the past. Fortunately, resources are available to help make this complicated process both accessible and reparative. People are often drawn to the reparations movement after discovering how their intimate family history intersects with enslavement, and RepGen is here to help with this journey. Applicants to our HORT program receive one-on-one consultation from trained genealogists to provide context and healing.
In upcoming house meetings, we will explore why and how we all can map our family histories and discuss the results with relatives. Join us on July 30 from 5:00-6:30 for a special Virtual House Meeting event featuring Lotte Lieb Dula, Founder of Reparations4Slavery, in conversation with Kellie Farrish, RepGen Board Member and Professional Genealogist. After learning about her own familial ties to slavery in Mississippi, Lieb Dula created R4S as a “portal for white families walking the path of racial healing through engaging in direct repair.” Lieb Dula and Farrish will share their expertise and discuss best practices and the benefits of restorative genealogy for all. There will be time to answer questions from the audience.