Photo courtesy of Shook Photos / Flickr Project Description Through a series of facilitated, collaborative discussions, Wesleyan College’s new Lane Center for Social and Racial Equity and our Community Partner, the Tubman Museum, are working with community members and regional leaders in the arts, business, government, and education to identify areas in need of racial……
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MLive: A ‘look back’ and a ‘look forward’: Washtenaw County committee studying reparations
WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – For eight months, an internal Washtenaw County committee composed of a cross-section of academics and community leaders has been quietly studying the long-term effects of one of America’s foundational evils, the institution of slavery. Washtenaw County Racial Equity Officer Alize Asberry Payne convened the Exploratory Committee on Reparations in June of……
Crafting Democratic Futures: Wofford College
Photo courtesy of Shook Photos / Flickr Project Description Wofford College and the wider Spartanburg community are collaborating to develop plans for racial reparations solutions that are both community-grounded and research-informed. The initial phase of our community-campus partnership involves extensive information-gathering, focused on historic and ongoing harms against descendants of enslaved laborers in Spartanburg, South……
You Can Keep the Mule: Let’s Explore Reparations Models – UMDC MLK Day Webinar 2022
Reparations is a topic that stirs up a lot of opinions on what the United States owes the descendants of enslaved Africans. Does it owe land? Money? Does it owe anything at all? This panel discussion recorded on MLK Day 2022 explores the varying concepts of what is owed and what reparations might look like……
Bridge Detroit: What to expect from Detroit’s new reparations taskforce
In November, 80% of Detroit voters supported the creation of a taskforce to explore reparations for the City’s past discriminatory policies. Once established, the taskforce will make recommendations to the City Council. However, it will not have the power to enact any changes at the municipal level on its own. Read Full Article
Crafting Democratic Futures: Carnegie Mellon University
Vidar Nordli-Mathisen / Unsplash Project Description Under the leadership of PI, Dr. Joe William Trotter, Jr., director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), Pittsburgh’s “Democratic Futures” project brings together college and university humanities scholars with community-based organizations and grassroots social activists to produce a comprehensive history of Pittsburgh’s African……
Democratic Solutions: Situating Colleges & Universities in Community-Based Reparations Solutions
Panel Discussion: Crafting Democratic Solutions: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-Based Reparations Solutions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxk_3vRT53k The Center for Social Solutions at the University of Michigan received a $5M Just Futures grant from the Mellon Foundation for an initiative called Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-Based Reparations Solutions. This panel will explore the role……
Flint Beat: Flint leader joins nationwide reparations project
Flint, MI—A Flint leader has been chosen to be part of a nationwide effort to create racial reparation solutions for communities of color. Asa Zuccaro, executive director of the Latinx Technology and Community Center was recently named a community fellow within the program “Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations Solutions.” He……
MLive: Community engagement a major force behind U-M reparations project for Black and Native communities
A team of experts based out of the University of Michigan are working to ensure a “just future” for Black and Native communities in the form of reparations. The University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions is almost a year into research for the project “Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations……
Crafting Democratic Futures: Rutgers University—Newark
Written by Mark Krasovic, associate professor of history and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. Project Description The Crafting Democratic Futures project at Rutgers University-Newark is led by faculty directors Mark Krasovic (history and American Studies) and Timothy Eatman (Honors Living-Learning Community and urban education), in partnership with community fellows Richard Cammarieri (Newark Community Development Network)……