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HBCU Reparations Debate Series in North Carolina
2023-03-20 08:00 - 2023-03-24 17:00 (America/Chicago)
NC 10 Schools

Monthly Reparations Strategy Session - March 2023: Dr. Obari Cartman, Health & Wellness
2023-03-30 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
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DR. OBARI CARTMAN’S BIO
Dr. Cartman is a father, son, brother, uncle, thinker, writer, therapist, photographer, drummer, and grassroots mental health advocate. He is a Chicago native, where his cultural and educational foundations were cultivated by several African-centered institutions. He received his undergraduate degree from Hampton University and a PhD in clinical & community psychology from Georgia State University. His recent work includes being a trauma focused clinician, restorative justice coach and program evaluator with H.E.L.P., LLC (Healing, Empowering, and Learning Professionals). Dr. Cartman has served as a professor of psychology at Georgia State University and the Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies at Northeastern University. Dr. Cartman recently created a male rites of passage curriculum called MANifest that is being implemented in juvenile detention centers, schools and in private community settings. Dr. Cartman is the former program director for Real Men Charities, Inc. where for 3 years he facilitated weekly men’s wellness and African drumming circles and was the associate editor of the South Side Drive magazine. Dr. Cartman is the current President of the Chicago Association of Black Psychologists and curator of a directory of Black mental health providers. As a consultant Dr. Cartman facilitates trainings for adults and workshops with youth about maintaining good mental health, critical analysis of hip-hop and media, racial and cultural identity, developing authentic manhood, and healthy relationships.
Dr. Cartman’s first book is called “Lady’s Man: Conversations for Young Black Men about Manhood and Relationships.” It is a critical thinking guide that addresses historical trauma, hip hop, emotional intelligence, intimacy, communication, power, purpose and a variety of other topics. Its conversational tone makes it an easy and enjoyable read for young men. It has been received with great critical acclaim: “.Cornel West referred to him as ..one of the wise and visionary writers of his generation.” The book is called “…penetrating, poignant and personal…” by Na’im Akbar, and an “instant classic” by Jessica Care Mooore. Jawanza Kunjufu says is does a “brilliant job in empowering Black males to reach their full potential”. The book is a tool for families, teachers, mentors, and coaches to help young men think critically, and build character, discover their purpose, love themselves and each other, communicate with clarity and intention, understand the need for proper education, relate to women with integrity, express their emotions, understand their place in history, develop healthy coping strategies, and learn how to build a world where all people are truly free.
WWW.DROBARICARTMAN.COM

Amherst College: 'The Big Payback' Screening
2023-03-30 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)

Black Policy Students of Harvard Kennedy School Present: A Modern Day Green-Book
2023-03-31 15:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago)
The Black Policy Conference was born in 2005 out of the desire to facilitate an open exchange of ideas for the most current issues affecting Black communities globally. As we look back to those who led policy shifts throughout the Black diaspora and within Africa we learn from their triumphs as well as their challenges.
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18th Annual Harvard Black Policy Conference: “Getting What We’re Owed: Strategies for Pursuing Reparations Through Policy, Collective Memory, and Advocacy"
2023-03-31 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
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50 Years of Hip-Hop: Fighting for Change Through Activism and Art
2023-04-13 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
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” to Meek Mill’s “What’s Free,” hip hop has always reflected societal changes and challenges, whether economic inequality, incarceration, police brutality or racism, and the joy and profound ingenuity of its creators.
Trace the music’s roots in cultural struggles from its founders to contemporaries in a conversation led by IOP Pritzker Fellow and FirstRepair founder Robin Rue Simmons, featuring one of Chicago’s best-known DJs and others.
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State of the Black World Conference V
2023-04-19 08:00 - 2023-04-23 17:00 (America/Chicago)
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Monthly Reparations Strategy Session - April 2023: Howard University's Professor of Law, Justin Hansford, J.D., Legal Framework of Reparations
2023-04-27 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
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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 Center. Professor Hansford was previously a Democracy Project Fellow at Harvard University, a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and an Associate Professor of Law at Saint Louis University. He has a B.A. from Howard University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a founder of the Georgetown Journal of Law and Modern Critical Race Perspectives. Professor Hansford also has earned a Fulbright Scholar award to study the legal career of Nelson Mandela, and served as a clerk for Judge Damon J. Keith on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Professor Hansford is a leading scholar and activist in the areas of critical race theory, human rights, and law and social movements. He is a co-author of the forthcoming Seventh Edition of Race, Racism and American Law, the celebrated legal textbook that was the first casebook published specifically for teaching race-related law courses. His interdisciplinary scholarship has appeared in academic journals at various universities, including Harvard, Georgetown, Fordham, and the University of California at Hastings. He also is a member of the Stanford Medicine Commission on Justice and Equity.
In the wake of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Hansford worked to empower the Ferguson community through community-based legal advocacy. He co-authored the Ferguson to Geneva human rights shadow report and accompanied the Ferguson protesters and Mike Brown’s family to Geneva, Switzerland, to testify at the United Nations. He has served as a policy advisor for proposed post-Ferguson reforms at the local, state, and federal level, testifying before the Ferguson Commission, the Missouri Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission, the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Dean Danielle Holley-Walker stated, “We are thrilled to have Justin Hansford join the Howard law faculty. He is a scholar who puts his passion and knowledge to work to empower marginalized communities. He will lead Thurgood Marshall Center with an eye towards community driven legal work that promotes positive change all over this country through criminal justice reform, the expansion of access to educational opportunity, and the pursuit of immigrant rights, human rights, and economic empowerment for marginalized communities. I am confident that, under his leadership, the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center will soon become an intellectual and legal hub for the post-Ferguson movement to liberate Black Lives.”
Professor Hansford is available for media interviews and may be contacted at (202)-250-5403 or by email at justin.hansford@law.howard.edu.
JUSTIN HANSFORD’S WIKIPEDIA

United Nations: To Centralise & Organise - The Collective African Struggle
2023-05-05 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Chicago)
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Monthly Reparations Strategy Session - May 2023: Movement Update with Nkechi Taifa & Dr. Cheryl Grills
2023-05-25 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
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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 Leadership graduate of Harvard Kennedy School. A visionary thought leader and nationally recognized expert and commentator on race and justice issues, Taifa is Convener Emeritus of the Justice Roundtable Coalition, and served as Commissioner and Chair of the D.C. Commission on Human Rights. She has worked for the Open Society Foundations, Howard University School of Law, the ACLU, Women’s Legal Defense Fund, National Prison Project, and as an attorney in private practice. She has testified before the United States Congress, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the U.S. Helsinki Commission, the DC City Council, the Maryland Legislature, and the California Reparations Task Force.
Nkechi is Founder and Executive Director of the Reparation Education Project, Inc., is an inaugural Commissioner on the National African American Reparations Commission, and a founder of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. She delivered a powerful TEDx talk, “Reparations, An Issue Whose Time Has Come.” A native Washingtonian, Nkechi is the author of the best-seller memoir, Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice, and the author of several books for children. Her most recent book, Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America, has been described as “part historical analysis, part revolutionary manifesto, and part political red-alert.”
In addition to her five published books, Nkechi Taifa is the author of scores of scholarly works, including law review articles, book chapters and white papers. She has been featured in major print and electronic media and has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including Essence Magazine’s WOKE 100 Black Women Advocating for Change.
For the complete Nkechi Taifa Experience, visit www.NkechiTaifa.com.

DR. CHERYL TAWEDE GRILLS’ BIO
Dr. Cheryl Tawede Grills is a Clinical Psychologist with a current emphasis in Community Psychology. On the faculty of Loyola Marymount University (LMU) for the past 36 years, she is a Professor of Psychology, Director of their Psychology Applied Research Center, and President’s Professor in the College of Liberal Arts. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of a non-profit organization, Imoyase Community Support Services, dedicated to program evaluation, action research, and technical assistance with community-based organizations focused on social justice, community organizing, and community-defined interventions.
Dr. Grills is a national Past President of The Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) and serves as one of the lead trainers in the Community Healing Network/ABPsi Emotional Emancipation Circles Initiative partnership designed to address racial trauma and stress experienced by people of African ancestry. She currently serves on the CA Reparations Taskforce, appointed by the Governor and on the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC). In addition, Dr. Grills is a Commissioner on Los Angeles County’s Sybil Brand Commission for Institutional Inspections, which focuses on conditions and practices within county jails and correctional facilities. She also served as Co-Executive Director of the Los Angeles County Blue Ribbon Commission on Child Protection whose work led to significant reforms in LA County’s approach to child welfare, including establishment of an Office of Child Protection.
Dr. Grills is a research principal investigator on several national, state, and county multi-site projects addressing mental health disparities, social determinants of health, positive youth development, and COVID’s impact on communities of color nationally. An important part of her work is in the area of racial stress focusing on research and training associated with racism, racial stress, implicit bias, and the development of community-based self-help models to address the negative effects of racism on people of African ancestry in the US and globally.
Dr. Grills’ research interests, publications, and projects include African Psychology, African Centered models of treatment engagement with African Americans; community psychology; community mental health; mental health disparities; community organizing as a public health strategy; community defined mental health intervention strategies; positive youth development; and program evaluation. She has published over 58 peer reviewed articles and book chapters in addition to a number of special reports and white papers.

2nd Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent Presents: Building A Case for U.S. Reparations
2023-05-31 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Hilton Millenium Hotel, Riverview Hotel, One UN Plaza, New York, NY, United States
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Reparations in Kansas City
2023-06-07 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Chicago)

Beyond Apology: A Series of Community Conversations on Repair and Reparations in Tulsa, OK
2023-06-13 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | 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 ongoing quest for justice, repair and reparation.
Sessions – The sessions are open to the public and all are welcome. Sessions are designed to be accessible to any community member regardless of their prior knowledge of or connection to the Tulsa Race Massacre and ensuing harms rooted in racial inequity. As a participant, you can but do not need to attend all sessions. Each is designed to be a stand alone event with a consistent scope, sequence and opportunities for input. That said, each session will bring a uniqueness thanks to the variety of perspectives of community members sharing the space.
Each session will provide participants with knowledge/context around the following areas:
*Official studies and recommendations for reparations regarding the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
*Equality data in Tulsa, OK
*Legal and legislative efforts for Reparations in Tulsa, OK (Past & Current)
*Case studies of reparative acts in the United States and around the world
*Public commitments made to repair harms stemming from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The ask of participants: Participants will be given the space and opportunity to express what repair or reparation should look like and what areas of repair or reparation should be prioritized.
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N'COBRA & The Miami Dade Coalition for Reparations
2023-06-15 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | New Providence Missionary Baptist Church, 760 N.W. 53rd Street, Miami Dade County, FL, 33147, United States

BRIDGE 4th Annual Juneteenth Celebration
2023-06-17 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | 656 Bridgeport Terrace, Lindenhurst, IL, 656 Bridgeport Terrace, Lindenhurst, IL, 60046, United States

Juneteenth Celebration
2023-06-17 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)

NCOBRA 34th Annual National Convention: "Honoring Our Ancestors"
2023-06-22 19:00 - 2023-06-25 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 the U. S. and in Ghana and London. It is directed nationally by a board of directors. Its work is organized through nine national commissions: Economic Development, Human Resources, Legal Strategies, Legislation, Information and Media, Membership and Organizational Development, International Affairs, Youth & Education.
​We believe black people can embrace who they are, can define their future, and can change the world.
Our Mission: The Mission of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA) is to win full Reparations for Black African Descendants residing in the United States and its territories for the genocidal war against Africans that created the TransAtlantic Slave “Trade” Chattel Slavery, Jim Crow and Chattel Slavery’s continuing vestiges (the Maafa). To that end, NCOBRA shall organize and mobilize all strata of these Black communities, into an effective mass-based reparations movement. NCOBRA shall also serve as a coordinating body for the reparations effort in the United States. Further, through its leadership role in the reparations movement within the United States and its territories, NCOBRA recognizes reparations is a just demand for all African peoples and shall join with others in building the international reparations movement.
N’COBRA is the premiere mass-based coalition of organizations and individuals organized for the sole purpose of obtaining reparations for African descendants in the United States.
Email: mail@officialncobra.org
Phone: (202) 643-1460
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Monthly Reparations Strategy Session - June 2023: Director of Narrative Change at Liberation Ventures, Trevor Smith, Narrative Change
2023-06-29 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
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TREVOR SMITH’S BIO
Trevor Smith (he/him) is a writer, researcher, and strategist focused on the topics of racial inequality, wealth inequality, reparations, and narrative change. He is currently the Director of Narrative Change at Liberation Ventures, a field builder fueling the movement for Black-led racial repair, where he is building a “Reparations Narrative Lab.” The Lab is a first-of-its-kind creative space designed to build narrative power behind reparations. He is also the creator, curator, and editor of a newsletter titled Reparations Daily (ish).
Trained as a journalist, he has extensive experience working within advocacy communications on an array of issues, including housing, economic opportunity, criminal justice, voting rights, education inequality, and fiscal policy. He has previously held program and communication roles at various racial and social justice organizations, including the Surdna Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
His research and writing on reparations have been published in academic journals like The Review of the Black Political Economy and major media outlets like Business Insider, USA Today, and Nonprofit Quarterly.

Peace, Love, & Reparations Concert + Unity Rally
2023-07-01 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
A powerful event dedicated to addressing the urgent need for reparations and justice for the Black community. The Peace, Love & Reparations Unity Rally provides an opportunity for community members, activists, and sponsors to come together and learn about the critical issues facing the Black community. Through engaging discussions, inspiring performances, and powerful keynote speeches, we will explore the conditions of the Black community and work towards a solution to address them through the acquisition of reparations.
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Screening & Conversation: The Big Payback - The Chicago Community Trust
2023-07-11 13:30 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Street, Chicago, 60601, United States

2023 USBC National Conference
2023-07-19 09:00 - 2023-07-21 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Mark your calendars for the highly anticipated 2023 U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. National Conference powered by Walmart Business and Wells Fargo!
Taking place July 19-21, 2023, at the prestigious Waldorf Astoria in Washington, DC, this event is three days of intensive training and inspiration for Black chamber leaders and entrepreneurs on the latest proven strategies for chamber growth, business expansion, and community leadership.
Featuring networking opportunities, workshops, and evening receptions, this conference is the perfect opportunity for attendees to gain access to valuable expertise and engage in peer-to-peer learning about business trends, practices, and issues.
Whether you’re a seasoned chamber leader or a rising entrepreneur, you won’t want to miss this chance to connect with other Black business professionals and gain valuable insights into the world of Black entrepreneurship.
Join us for this exciting event and take your business to the next level!
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Monthly Reparations Strategy Session - July 2023: GRAMMY Award Winner, Rhymefest, Cultural Currency
2023-07-27 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
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RHYMEFEST’S BIO
As a recording artist, songwriter, humanitarian, and trailblazer; Che “Rhymefest” Smith has shattered countless negative stereotypes in Hip Hop. His creative contributions to the culture have earned him GRAMMY Awards, a Soul Train Award, a Golden Globe and countless nominations and accolades for his Academy Award Winning works. In his current role with Golden State Entertainment, as an artist and strategic advisor, Smith is preparing to release his first creative project, “James and Nikki: A Conversation”, based on the 1971 sit down between James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni, which was presented on WNET’s “Soul!”
This Chicago native expanded his gifts beyond the borders of music as the storyteller and subject of the Showtime and Break Thru Films documentary “In My Father’s House”, which chronicles the process of Che purchasing his estranged father’s childhood home, during which he discovered that his father had been homeless for most of Rhymefest’s life. He then embarks on a journey to reconnect and redeem their relationship. Rhymefest considers himself a global citizen, partnering with organizations like “The Abolition Institute” as he fights against modern day slavery in places like Mauritania; from there Che’s relationships have found him making diasporic Fusion Hip Hop with the Griot and Wolof tribes in Dakar, Senegal. You might even catch him in Cartagena, Colombia freestyling with the Palenque. It’s Rhymefest’s belief that music should be used as a tool to heal wounds and bridge connections between cultures.
Rhymefest debuted his acting prowess in the Emilio Estevez written and directed film “The Public”, starring alongside Gabriel Union, Michael K. Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Alec Baldwin and Emilio Estavez. He’s made guest appearances on the HBO Max comedy series “South Side” and was a central character in the Kanye West, Netflix documentary “Jeen-Yuhs”. Never straying from his love of music and community service, Rhymefest co-founded the nonprofit organization Art Of Culture, where he mentors youth, teaches writing classes and exposes young people to the world around them with 7-day youth cultural retreats.
“True Power Is The Power To Empower Others” – Rhymefest
RHYMEFEST’S WIKIPEDIA

Peace, Love, and Reparations Benefit Concert
2023-08-12 10:00 - 17:30 (America/Chicago)
Free Concert taking place on August 12, 2023, in the heart of Black Los Angeles, Leimert Park. This event will mark the completion of the California Reparation Task Force’s final report, as we continue to push for federal reparations.
The Peace, Love, and Reparations Concert+Unity Rally will bring together policy creators, activists, and artists to inspire, educate, and empower for community reparations and healing. Join us in this celebration and our efforts to build a national united front to move this nation forward for reparations.
We have an incredible lineup of speakers, including Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee, California Secretary of State, Shirley Weber, Evanston’s Robin Rue Simmons and California Reparations Task Force Members, who will share their insights and experiences on reparations policy. And let’s not forget the musical performances from Eric Benet, The Game, and the musical group Sounds Of Blackness!
✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻 This is our moment to make history and build a more equitable future. ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
🗓️ Date: AUGUST 12TH 2023
⏰ Time: 10AM – 5:30PM
📍 Location: Leimert Park
🌟 Admission: Free at the park or $10 Virtual Ticket (link below)
What We’re Working Towards
Peace, Love, & Reparations Unity Rally
Raise awareness of the urgent need for reparations and justice for the Black Community.
Call for action in securing a Presidential Executive Order for an HR 40 Reparations Commission.
Build a stronger and more cohesive reparations movement.
Spark conversations and dialogue around reparations and related.
Generate financial support to fund community-led reparations initiatives.
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Pan African Festival
2023-08-18 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Decatur, GA

How Should Societies Remember Their Sins?: A Zócalo Event Series, Supported by The Mellon Foundation
2023-08-23 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
The Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel did not believe in collective guilt. Instead, he asked for repair, and for holding the post-World War II generation of Germans responsible “not for the past, but for the way it remembers the past. And for what it does with the memory of the past.” Other societies and communities have taken up Wiesel’s call—at the national level, South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Argentina’s efforts to prosecute Dirty War military leaders, and at the local level, movements like the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission in North Carolina and land back efforts in the Pacific Northwest. What comes after we remember, from apology and forgiveness to reparations and justice?
Rhetoric professor Andre E. Johnson, the Monument Lab co-founder and artist Ken Lum, and reparations leader Robin Rue Simmons join Zócalo and the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis to discuss what repair looks like, and how different people and places have stumbled and succeeded in its pursuit.
We invite our in-person audience to continue the conversation with our speakers and each other at a post-event reception with complimentary drinks and small bites.
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Why Isn't Remembering Enough to Repair?
2023-08-23 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)

Monthly Reparations Strategy Session - August 2023: Reverend Dr. Michael C. R. Nabors, Faith-Based Initiatives
2023-08-31 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
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REVEREND NABOR’S BIO
Reverend Dr. Michael C. R. Nabors is senior pastor of the historic Second Baptist Church in Evanston, Illinois. The 139 year-old Church is one of the oldest African American congregations on the North Shore. Since arriving at Second Baptist, Dr. Nabors has sought to continue leading the church in its historical role as a trumpeter for Christ and as a social justice advocate in Evanston and Metro Chicago. Recently, Second Baptist Church has become a leading faith center in America in facilitating Race Talk Solidarity Circles in local communities.
Dr. Nabors teaches Homiletics and Qualitative Research and Theological Writing at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL. He served as Director of the Master of Divinity and Student Life Programs at Ecumenical Theological Seminary in Detroit where he was professor of Homiletics and African American Religious History. He has taught at Ashland Theological Seminary, Calvin Theological Seminary, and Marygrove College.
Dr. Nabors earned an undergraduate degree in English and Creative Writing at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Master of Divinity with an emphasis in Systematic Theology and the Master of Theology with an emphasis in Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey and the Doctor of Ministry focusing on African American Preaching at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. He has been both a Samuel DeWitt Proctor and Benjamin E. Mays Fellow. He was also a Fellow in the Sustaining Pastoral Excellence- Lily Endowment Program as well as a Fellow in the Pastor-Theologian Lilly Endowment Program.
Since 2019, Dr. Nabors has been part of the Steering Committee for Evanston Reparations, the first municipal reparations program in the United States, allocating 10 million dollars to Black Evanstonians to repair historical damages due to racism. He has received over 100 community, church and ministry awards for leadership and service in New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois. Before leaving Princeton, New Jersey, the Mayor and City Council commemorated his leadership by naming October 12th, “Dr. Michael Nabors Day.” He also served as president of the Princeton and Trenton, New Jersey branches of the NAACP and is currently in his third term as president of the Evanston-North Shore Branch of the NAACP. A regarded speaker, preacher and lecturer, he has been invited to address universities, seminaries, high schools, community organizations, churches, religious conventions and symposiums throughout the United States.

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2023 Early Professionals Summit
2023-09-16 11:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago)
Saturday Keynote: Robin Rue Simmons of FirstRepair
Robin Rue Simmons was born and raised in the largely segregated 5th Ward of Evanston, and laid the foundation for her life’s work in 1998 when she became a residential real estate broker. Troubled by the wealth disparities and concentrated poverty she witnessed locally and saw in other urban communities, she wanted to help young adults begin to build wealth through home ownership. As 5th Ward Alderman for the City of Evanston from 2017-2021, she led in collaboration with others the passage of the nation’s first municipally-funded reparations legislation for Black residents, which began disbursements in January 2022. The local reparations initiative is being funded by the first $10 million of cannabis sales tax revenue collected by the City, and the first stage targets homeownership. Founder and Executive Director of FirstRepair, a nonprofit that informs local reparations nationally, Robin continues to expand her advocacy while also serving as the chairperson of the City of Evanston’s Reparations Committee.
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Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference
2023-09-20 09:00 - 2023-09-24 17:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center for five days of premium programming and signature events including the Prayer Breakfast, National Town Hall, Phoenix Awards, and Black Party.
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Monthly Reparations Strategy Session - September 2023: Linda Mann, Co-Founder of the African American Redress Network (AARN)
2023-09-28 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
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LINDA MANN’S BIO
Focus areas: intersection of U.S. history, human rights, and reparations
Linda Mann is the co-founder of the African American Redress Network (AARN), a collaboration between Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and Howard University, Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. She is an associate adjunct professor at SIPA and director of the John Mitchell Jr. Program, George Mason University, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Her research and practice focus on the intersection of U.S. history, human rights, and reparations. Mann previously served as the Executive Director for the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University’s School of Law and VP of Research for the Georgetown Memory Project. Mann is a seasoned educator with over ten years of postgraduate teaching experience and ten years as a public-school history educator. Mann started her career as a conflict resolution specialist and has decades of experience as a political, grassroots organizer.
Education
PhD Education Policy, George Mason University
LINDA MANN’S BIO
