Reparations Policy Tracker

Key developments in Leon County's reparations push:

• Commissioners consider amendment Tuesday to address historical wrongs, revived after stalling in...

Grassroots push in Tulsa contrasts federal inaction: The Tulsa Reparations Summit (April 24–26, 2026, Greenwood) demands action where federal policy...

• Strategic shift: Africa eyes reparations as tools in policy domains beyond moral/legal bounds.
• UN doubts: Member states unlikely to implement...

Key defenses against Black history erasure ahead of 250th anniversary:

• NPS scrubbed Harriet Tubman/Underground Railroad exhibits, part of Trump...

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy is set to share the stage with a $24 trillion reparations advocate, spotlighting high-level engagement with massive international demands—key comparative signal for US FBA/ADOS lineage-based policy pushes.

Reform UK's visa bans on reparations-seeking nations called crude and hypocritical, demonizing enslaved descendants.

• Britain compensated 46,000...

Key model for FBA/ADOS land justice:

• Black to the Land ecovillage in CA: 6 Black stewards manage 189 acres off-grid with solar, gardens, and streams...

FBA/ADOS Voices on America's 250th Anniversary

• 🔥 Al Sharpton Calls Celebration 'Crazy': Rev. Al Sharpton stated at the National Action...

Al Sharpton slams America's 250th anniversary as no celebration for Black people: "We were slaves then" in 1776, emancipated only 1863. Calls...

Germany shows racial reckoning without Truth Commissions, offering a blueprint for HR40 or task forces:

• Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung places atonement...

Columbia Law Review essay reframes the exploitation, land expropriation, and erasure of Black farmers as constitutional failures to guarantee republican government. Sharp legal lens for reparations advocacy.

Reform UK's 'temper tantrum' visa bans on reparations-seeking nations like Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica recall the Zong massacre: 130+ Africans thrown...

Local Funding Stalemates

• Baltimore's $35 Million Idle: Baltimore's $35 million reparations funds from cannabis tax revenue, approved in 2024,...

Ambitious municipal pushes reveal a trend of sky-high harm estimates and payouts, but governance risks loom large for organizers:

• Fulton County's...

Critical governance snag: $35M in cannabis tax revenue sits unused amid turf war—City Hall claims mayor's final say, while the 2024 commission demands...

Evanston's Black exodus from 22.5% (2000) to 14.4% (2024) stems from skyrocketing housing costs, testing the city's pioneering reparations program.

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Local Task Force Reports

• 🔥 Fulton County's 615-Page Harm Report: Fulton County’s Reparations Task Force, chaired by Dr. Karchiek Sims-Alvarado...

Key highlights from Fulton County's new report:

• Task force, formed in 2023, researched harms to Black people enslaved there or during Jim Crow.
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• UN resolution declares transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity, urging reparations – timely boost for CA's Slavery Reparations...

UK's Reform party visa blockade against slavery reparations seekers exposes vulnerabilities:

• Post-Brexit dependence: Britain relies on these nations...