Reparations Resources

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

Church Reparations

  • Report by the Church Pension Group on the Origins and Sources of Its Assets (May 2024)
    This report was commissioned to explore origins and sources of certain assets “that are directly tied to the enslavement of humans, the slave trade, and historical and current racial injustices,” the 80th General Convention approved Resolution 2022-A129, Resolution for a Forensic Audit of the Funds of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society.
  • Final Report of the Archbishops’Commission for Racial Justice
  • DioMass Reparations Toolkit
  • DioMass Inaugural Reparations Fund Committee
  • After the Flood, Movement for Justice and Reconciliation
  • 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.