Campaign for Reparative Justice and Democracy Reform
Journey to Jubilee is a campaign for reparative justice and democracy reform through racial healing and transformation in partnership with the National Council of Churches and Harvard University’s William Monroe Trotter Collaborative.
Send President Biden Faith Letter on Reparations
Resources
Text of H.R. 40, Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act
Text of S. 40, Companion bill to H.R. 40
NCC Resources
- Faith Leader Letter to President Biden to Establish Reparations Commission
- Reparatory Justice Webinar Series
- Faith and Facts on Reparations
Coalition Information
- The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA)
- The National African American Reparations Commission
- 2021 Why We Can’t Wait Faith Letter in Support of H.R. 40
- 2022 Why We Can’t Wait Letter in Support of H.R. 40
Economic Studies
- CitiGroup: Not addressing racial gaps between Blacks and Whites has cost the U.S. economy up to $16 million over the past 20 years.:
- How Institutional Racism Affects the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (forbes.com).
- Business Case for Racial Equity – W.K. Kellogg Foundation (wkkf.org)
- What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap – The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity (duke.edu)
- Racism is hurting the economic well-being of the US and its workforce — including white workers | The Kinder Institute for Urban Research (rice.edu)
- Eliminating the Black-White Wealth Gap Is a Generational Challenge – Center for American Progress
- Closing the racial wealth gap requires heavy, progressive taxation of wealth (brookings.edu)
- It’s Time for U.S. Business Leaders to Talk About Reparations (hbr.org)
