Advance Reparations & Economic Justice

The difference between wealth in white and Black households is growing in America. According to economists, white households have ten times the wealth of Black households. This divide is expected to worsen in a few decades. As we all know, this problem didn’t start overnight. It is the result of centuries of disinvestment and systematic inequality that has persisted in this country since Black Americans were enslaved.   

Reparations was added as part of the Just Economy and Community Development platform by a vote of the membership in October 2020 and was launched in 2022 at our Martin Luther King Jr. Faith in Action Assembly.

Join us in the fight to correct historic economic injustices!

• Sign our Reparations Pledge!
  By signing this pledge, you will be taking part in statewide efforts to learn, organize and advocate for reparations. 

• You can engage in independent work or you can join the CRS Economic Justice Issue team in coordinating collective calls-to-action by sending us an email.

• Donate to support our work surrounding reparations and economic justice.

• View the interview on the topic of reparations with Marvin Slaughter, Interim Director of the African American Leadership and Policy Institute, below.

Resources

• Books

  • Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism by DeYoung, Curtiss Paul, Boesak, Allan Aubrey

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

  • Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America by Hamilton, Charles V., Ture, Kwame

  • A Black Theology of Liberation: 50th Anniversary Edition by Cone, James H.

  • The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Berry, Daina Ramey

  • Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero , rev. ed. by Harding

  • If They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance (Radical Thinkers) by Davis, Angela Y.

  • Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare (ASM) by James H. Cone

  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Alexander, Michelle

  • The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help you Deserve by Walker PhD, Rheeda , Akbar, Na'im

  • Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture) by Ransby, Barbara

  • The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Hannah-Jones, Nikole, The New York Times Magazine, Roper, Caitlin, Silverman, Ilena, Silverstein, Jake

  • Caste by Wilkerson, Isabel

  • Eloquent Rage, Brittney Cooper

  • Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, Soraya Chemaly

  • Good and Mad, Rebecca Traister

If you have additional resources to add please email us at info@communityrenewalsociety.org.