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  • April 2023

  • Thu 13

    50 Years of Hip-Hop: Fighting for Change Through Activism and Art

    April 13, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

    This year marks the 50th anniversary of hip hop, the musical genre that debuted in the Bronx streets and fought its way into the mainstream – and a billion-dollar Grammy-heavy business – through two generations of poets, artists, and activists. From Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” and Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power'' […]

  • Wed 19

    State of the Black World Conference V

    April 19, 2023 @ 8:00 am - April 23, 2023 @ 5:00 pm

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

    $250
  • Thu 27

    Monthly Reparations Strategy Session – April 2023: Howard University’s Professor of Law, Justin Hansford, J.D., Legal Framework of Reparations

    April 27, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR ZOOM JUSTIN HANSFORD, J.D.'S BIO Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, J.D., Georgetown University Hansford will “put his passion and knowledge to work to empower marginalized communities.” Justin Hansford is a Howard University School of Law Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights […]

  • May 2023

  • Fri 5

    United Nations: To Centralise & Organise – The Collective African Struggle

    May 5, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

    GET DETAILS & REGISTER HERE

  • Thu 25

    Monthly Reparations Strategy Session – May 2023: Movement Update with Nkechi Taifa & Dr. Cheryl Grills

    May 25, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR ZOOM NKECHI TAIFA'S BIO Preferred pronunciation: (Neh-KEE-Chee Tah-EE-Fah) Nkechi Taifa is a civil and human rights attorney, scholar-activist, talk show host, and author. She is president of The Taifa Group LLC and serves as Senior Fellow for the Center of Justice at Columbia University and as a Power, Innovation and […]

  • Wed 31

    2nd Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Presents: Building A Case for U.S. Reparations

    May 31, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Hilton Millenium Hotel, Riverview Hotel One UN Plaza, New York, NY, United States

    REGISTER HERE!  

  • June 2023

  • Wed 7

    Reparations in Kansas City

    June 7, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
  • Tue 13

    Beyond Apology: A Series of Community Conversations on Repair and Reparations in Tulsa, OK

    June 13, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Greenwood Cultural Center 322 N. Greenwood Ave., Tulsa, OK, United States

    Beyond Apology is a series of community conversations rooted in education on what repair and reparation in Tulsa, OK should look like. Purpose - Beyond Apology was created in honor of the Ancestors that built the Greenwood community in Tulsa, OK and in support of the survivors and descendants of the Tulsa Race Massacre and their […]

  • Thu 15

    N’COBRA & The Miami Dade Coalition for Reparations

    June 15, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    New Providence Missionary Baptist Church 760 N.W. 53rd Street, Miami Dade County, FL, United States

    REGISTER HERE!

  • Sat 17

    BRIDGE 4th Annual Juneteenth Celebration

    June 17, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
    656 Bridgeport Terrace, Lindenhurst, IL 656 Bridgeport Terrace, Lindenhurst, IL, United States
  • Sat 17

    Juneteenth Celebration

    June 17, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  • Thu 22

    NCOBRA 34th Annual National Convention: “Honoring Our Ancestors”

    June 22, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - June 25, 2023 @ 10:00 pm

    N’COBRA’s founding meeting, September 26, 1987, was convened for the purpose of broadening the base of support for the long-standing reparations movement. Organizational founders of N'COBRA include the National Conference of Black Lawyers, the New Afrikan Peoples Organization, and the Republic of New Afrika. N’COBRA has individual members and organizational affiliates. It has chapters throughout […]

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