Resources

Resources

Please note: There is a world of information about reparations. This is not an exhaustive accounting of reparation resources. RIC members have found many of these resources helpful, inspiring, and engaging. We continue to learn together and update the site accordingly.

Books

• NY Times Book Review Learning from the Germans: Race & the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman

• Description and Reviews of Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England by Jared Hardesty

• Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair

• How The Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
  By Clint Smith 2021

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Beacon, 2015) is a history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples.

• From Here to Equality by William A. Darity Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen 

• Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future (2024) Edited by Sundiatta Keita Cha-Jua, Mary Frances Berry, V.P. Franklin

• Inherited Silence- Listening to the Land,  Healing the Colonizer MInd by Louise Dunlap

Articles

• What is NAARC's 10-Point Reparations Plan? (reparationscomm.org)

• What is HR 40? (reparationscomm.org)

• The Case For Reparations | reparations4slavery.com

• Institutional Reparations | reparations4slavery.com

• History of Slavery and Institutional Racism, State by State | reparations4slavery.com

• White Trauma / White Supremacy | reparations4slavery.com

• Modern Vectors of Economic Liberation | reparations4slavery.com

• 400 Years Of Inequality Timeline | reparations4slavery.com

• Historical Timeline of Reparations Payments Made | reparations4slavery.com

• Statement of Apology | Fund For Reparations Now 

• Reparations Contribution | Fund For Reparations Now

• Resources for prayers and spiritual texts for applying spiritual principles that support reparations in various faith traditions can be found here. 

• A Litany of Confession, Repentance, and Repair written by Reverend Kevin Kitrell Ross, a prior Harvard Divinity School student of TTP Co-founder Dr. Ragland.  

• Movement 4 Black Lives Reparations Toolkit

• The New York Times Presents The #1619Project

• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

• Reparations Now: A White Man's Appeal For America To Pay What Is Due

• The Jewish Case for Indigenous Solidarity

• The Torah Case for Reparations

• Op-Ed: Rabbi Sharon Brous: Why Jews should support reparations for slaveryThe

• Collective Healing That Is Owed by Zenobia Jeffries Warfield  

• The Midpoint Between Truth and Reconciliation Is Reparations by David Ragland 

• Thank You For The Symbolic Gestures But Black People Need Reparations by Janice Gassam

• The Direct Line Between Slavery And Racism In Boston

• I'm Sick of Asking Children to be Resilient

• The Case for Reparations, Decolonizing Wealth/Liberated Capital

• Growing number of religious groups developing reparations programs

• Harvard professors’ newly published research reveals existing U.S. non-racial “reparatory compensation” programs demonstrate the feasibility of reparations for racial harms

• Embrace, Boston Indicators Project

• White Supremacy Culture

Videos/Films

• Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts Reparations Community of Practice Group - Past Presentations

• Recordings of past Reparations Sundays hosted by the Grassroots Reparations campaign: 

  • Reparations Sunday 2020 - Global Reparations Ritual led by Yeye Luisah Teish

  • Reparations Sunday 12/20/2021 Jubilee Revival and Ritual

  • Reparations as a Spiritual Practice: Lessons from the Japanese Experience 2/12/2021

  • Reparations Sunday 8/21/2022 Jubilee Revival and Ritual

• Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America  https://thewhoweareproject.org/the-film

• Descendants  https://www.netflix.com/title/81586731

• Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

• Old North Church - How much did a pew cost?

• The History Of White People In America, Episode One(of 6): How America Invented Race | GBH

• Exterminate the Brutes

Courses

• White Awake: Roots Deeper than Whiteness

• The Stolen Beam

Podcasts

• What Is Owed Podcast GBH 

Organizations

• Grassroots Reparations Campaign

• Fund For Reparations Now (FFRN)

• Reparations | NAACP

• N'COBRA.org 

• Reparations Resource Center - Institute of the Black World 21st Century (ibw21.org)

• Reparations4Slavery.com

• Racial Justice Rising

• African Heritage Reparation Assembly | Amherst, MA - Official Website (amherstma.gov)

• Coming to the Table (CTTT)

• Manna-hatta Fund

• Jews On Ohlone Land

• MA Solidarity Economy Network

• Embrace Boston 

• The Royall House

Other links

• UMass Amherst's list of reparations in US

• Embrace Boston Harm Report