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New Seattle/King County data shows 58.6% support reparations — nearly double the national average. Housing, healthcare & education investments perform strongest. Naming redlining works better than abstract framing. Communities are ready. Are institutions?

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RSAE prepares to distribute $400k to Black churches Five years after the Reparations Stakeholder Authority of Evanston announced it would create its own privately funded reparations program, the organization is now set to distribute $400,000 to Evansto...

Reparations are happening now in Evanston, Illinois: $400K is going to Black churches for economic support in addition to the city’s housing repair program. It shows what reckoning, acknowledgement, accountability, and redress can look like in real time.

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Policy shifts require narrative shifts. This January we trained with Fearless Communicators, crafting stories that answer: Why reparations? Why now? Why us? Data builds credibility and stories build connection. Both move repair forward.

Liberation Ventures is investing in tools and trainings to help artists, organizers, and communicators shift beliefs and strengthen the movement for reparations and racial repair. Join one of our upcoming trainings:

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Introducing the Belief Arc: An Organizer’s Approach To Narrative Change By Amity Paye, Vice President of Narrative Change at Liberation Ventures

Narrative change requires more than instinct, it requires research, strategy, and practice.

Learn more about how we’re approaching narrative change:
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Building a successful movement requires continuity. It requires honoring those who built the foundation while expanding the coalition capable of implementation. #Reparations #SocialJustice #Repair

WHY REPARATIONS - N'COBRA Why Reparations Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade More than 4,000,000 of their ancestors and  antecedents were enslaved in the United States and the colonies that became the United States of America from 161...

Today is Reparations Awareness Day, established by NCOBRA. For decades, organizers have built the case for repair — legal, moral & political. Today we honor this legacy and long-term advocacy by continuing their work, alongside them. ncobraphl.org/why-reparati...

In 2020 #OleMiss started a process of repair by apologizing for harm. We’re still waiting for them to complete it.

❓Reckoning
✅ Acknowledgement
❓Accountability
❌ Redress

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In 1970, Black students at Ole Miss were arrested for demanding equity. Fifty years later, the university apologized. Apology is a first step toward institutional repair. What comes next?: truth-telling, accountability and redress
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Recommendations from the #Ashville’s reparations process call for:
✅ Investing in Black health professionals
✅ Mental health networks
✅ Birthing support
✅ Elder care
✅ Environmental justice
✅ And spaces for Black joy

This is what repair in action looks like.

In Asheville, NC, reparations leaders are linking history to health now — from the loss of the Asheville Colored Hospital to today’s gaps in infant mortality and chronic disease. The community has a blueprint: invest in Black providers, healing, and wellness. mountainx.com/news/communi...

The history of Japanese American incarceration also teaches an essential lesson about reparations.

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Day of Remembrance — JACL

Feb 19 is the Day of Remembrance for Japanese Americans incarcerated under EO 9066. Their fight for reparations showed what repair requires: reckoning, acknowledgement, accountability, redress. jacl.org/day-of-remem...

This #BlackHistoryMonth, join @liberationventures.bsky.social for another session of the Reparation Information Thought Series.

The conversation starts today at 1PM ET.

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This is how reparations advance: Communities organize. Histories are documented. Governments formally recognize harm. Then infrastructure is created to produce accountability and redress over time. Learn more www.liberationventures.org/what-are-rep...

Each local reparations win strengthens national possibility. Every program built helps normalize the idea that repair is a responsibility of public institutions. #SantaMonica shows that cities can build pathways to repair right now.

Santa Monica's $3.5M Fund to Address Historical Racial Harms Santa Monica City Council unanimously voted to establish a $3.5 million restorative justice program addressing historical harms against African American residents.

Santa Monica did more than apologize, it committed $3.5M and built a structure to deliver repair. That’s momentum.That’s precedent. That’s accountability in action. Read the full article here: www.smdp.com/santa-monica...

The argument for Reparations is mathematically irrefutable.

Japanese American redress became possible because people came together across differences, told the truth, and refused to give up. That same solidarity is alive right now, with reparations programs popping up all over the
country.

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‘Reparations’ brings multicultural crowd into fight for a ‘simple justice’ The film does not use flowery techniques or emotional music to convince its audience of its worth — the case for reparations is pressing and substantial enough.

At the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, a crowd watched Reparations and organized for what’s next — from local action to H.R. 40. Precedent shows repair is possible when we build together. www.dailycal.org/arts/local-e...

Repair is love in action. LV launched on Valentine’s Day to center love for Black people and the movement for racial repair. We accelerate the #reparations field and build a culture of repair across the U.S. Learn more and join us: www.liberationventures.org/who-we-are/

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: REPARATION INFORMATION THOUGHT SERIES: Slave Revolts, Armed Defense and Protests: A Mapping of Black Resistance. After registering, you will receive a confi... Join us for another session of the Reparation Information Thought Series, co-hosted by the National Black Cultural Information Trust, Inc. and the Reparation Education Project. This session is present...

This Black History Month, join Reparations Education Project for another session of the Reparation Information Thought Series: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

RFP: Reparations Narrative and Communications Projects [Public] Request for Proposals: Reparations Narrative and Communications Projects By Liberation Ventures Overview Liberation Ventures seeks project proposals that make reparations more common sense and common...

Are you working on reparations narrative projects focused on mass culture engagement? Apply by March 3 here: bit.ly/250RepNarrative

RFP: Reparations Narrative and Communications Projects [Public] Request for Proposals: Reparations Narrative and Communications Projects By Liberation Ventures Overview Liberation Ventures seeks project proposals that make reparations more common sense and common...

LV wants to fund narrative change work in mass culture engagement, mass media development, and curated experiences. Doing the work? Apply by March 3 here: bit.ly/250RepNarrative

Reparative Journalism Archive: A Sanctuary of Black Memory - Media 2070

The Reparative Journalism Archive by Media 2070 centers Black narrative power and community memory. Liberation Ventures celebrates this as a form of repair — confronting media harm while building alternatives rooted in truth, care, and collective imagination.
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The start of King’s March on Washington speech is a call for reparations—that America has given people a bad check.

It's so important to tell our movement stories. they inspire and offer guidance for future organizing.

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.

But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

Let’s talk. What changes when we name how public policy produced racial harm? At Liberation Ventures, we believe honest conversation is the starting point for real repair. What truths still need naming?

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