Reparatory Justice and Reparations: Truth-Telling, Conciliation, and Healing

The Case for Reparations is a national and global movement for people of African descent—enslaved Africans and their descendants globally. Reparatory justice is also needed for descendants of Indigenous peoples including Native Americans, Latin Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders/Hawaiians whose legacies include, genocide, theft of land, the denial of legal and human rights, and forced labor to build the wealth of Europe and U.S. territories. During this digital program, we will introduce a new learning platform engaging the denomination in "An Interactive Educational Study Guide on Reparatory Justice and Reparations for the Christian Church in the 21st Century."

A recording of this session and resources are below. For more information contact Rev. Dr. Velda Love.

Reparatory Justice and Reparations: Truth-Telling, Conciliation, and Healing Resources

• Reparatory Justice and Reparations: Truth-Telling, Conciliation, and Healing PowerPoint 

• The Minnesota Paradox

• Radical Reconciliation by Allan Aubrey Boesak and Curtiss Paul DeYoung 

• White Too Long by Robert P. Jones 

• Stand Your Ground Black Bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas 

• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem 

• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic

• Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldua.

• 50“Los Espíritus Siguen Hablando: Chicana Spiritualities,” Lara Medina.  

• Remembrance - Toward Righteousness and Reparations by Dr. Iva Carruthers 

•  Africa's Great Civilizations Narrated by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 

• Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery: Charles, Mark, Rah, Soong-Chan

• Matthew 22:37-39; 25:35-40, Mark 12:30-31 The Remix by Velda Love