Reparations Resources

See also our Racial Justice Working Group’s blog:  We’ve Come This Far by Faith.

Church Reparations

  • Jarrett-Schell, Peter. Reparations: A Plan for Churches. NY: Church Publishing, 2023.
    • A video conversation (59 min.) between the author and The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers, Canon to the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, hosted by Justin Hoffman.
  • Kwon, Duke L., et al. Reparations : A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair. Ada MI: Brazos, 2021.
  • Shire, Michael & Pamela L. Werntz.  “Jewish & Christian Thought & Practice”:  Session 6.  Hebrew College, Open Circle Learning (videorecording).
  • Turner, Robert, Creating a Culture of Repair:Taking Action on the Road to Reparations. Westminster John Knox Press – 2024.

Reparations: General Resources

  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi, “The Case for Reparations,” Atlantic, June 2014. [may require purchase]
  • “The Cost of Inheritance,”  America ReFramed: Season 12, Episode 1 (56 min.). Public Broadcasting Service: 2024 (airing through 31 July).
  • Darity, William A. Jr.  A Blueprint for Reparations in the US. Ted Talk (36 min.), June 2020.
  • Darity, William A. Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen. From Here to Equality : Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. 2d ed. Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
  • Darity, William A. Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen & Lucas Hubbard (eds.) The Black Reparations Project : A Handbook for Racial Justice. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 2023.
    • Essays by contributors in the fields of economics, public policy, history, public health, and education on building and implementing reparations programs, past and present.
  • Lee, Trymaine, podcast host. Into America: Uncounted Millions. MSNBC, February 2024 to present.
  • Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste : The Origins of Our Discontents. New York, New York: Random House, 2020.
  • Wilkerson, Isabel. 2010. The Warmth of Other Suns : The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York: Random House.
  • Wintersmith, Saraya, podcast host. What Is Owed? WGBH News, (7 episodes) February-March, 2024.