FirstRepair

Reparations Strategy Session
2024-01-25 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom

The Community Discussion with Special Guest Robin Rue Simmons
2024-01-29 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Bruce R Watkins Cultural Heritage Center, 3700 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. BLVD, KCMO, United States

Buy Black Expo
2024-02-10 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Bruce R Watkins Cultural Heritage Center, 3700 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. BLVD, KCMO, United States

February Reparations Strategy Session featuring Kamm Howard
2024-02-22 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
Kamm Howard is a Chicago businessman and real estate investor, and a national and international reparations scholar and activist working for over 20 years building grassroots movements to obtain reparations for African descendants in the United States. From 2017-2022, he served as the National Co-Chair of The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, or N’COBRA. While at N’COBRA, he assisted in forming the vision and developed, led, and implemented many significant actions pushing forward and keeping alive the fight for redress and repair for the intergenerational harm inflicted on black people and the anti-black policies sanctioned by local, state, and federal governments affecting us to this day. In 2022, Howard founded Reparations United to further his mission for obtaining reparations. He provides advisory and leadership to coalitions and activists in the movement. He serves as a Commissioner of the National African American Reparations Commission where in 2017 he led in revising the federal legislation H.R. 40 – a bill to establish a commission to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans. Kamm authored a pamphlet, “Laying the Foundation for Local Reparations: A Guide for Providing National Symmetry for Local Reparations Efforts,” that has provided guidance to numerous activists around the country. In addition to being the lead writer for revising the federal HR 40 bill, Kamm wrote the Chicago and State of Illinois reparations legislations that created the Chicago Reparations Subcommittee and the State of Illinois Reparations Commission. Kamm was selected to give testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on HR 40 which led to the historic vote to pass the bill out of the House Judiciary Committee. Also, he sits on the Boards of First Repair – founded by Robin Rue Simmons of Evanston, Illinois, and Global Black started by Dr. Amara Enya, while also serving on the advisory councils of the African American Redress Network (AARN) and the Descendants of the St. Louis University Enslaved, or DSLUE.
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Black History Chicago Reparations Celebrations
2024-02-24 15:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | The Kehrein center of the Arts, 5628W Washington Blvd, chicago, IL, 60644, United States

March Reparations Strategy Session featuring Nkechi Taifa, Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor, and Robin Rue Simmons: Women and the Reparations Movement
2024-03-28 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
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April Reparations Strategy Session featuring Alvin Tillery: Democracy, Politics, and Reparations
2024-04-25 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., is the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy and Professor of political science at Northwestern University. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2001. Tillery is also a summa cum laude graduate of Morehouse College. His research focuses on building leadership capacity and designing equity within organizations. Tillery is a frequent commentator in the national media on diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. He is also the CEO of the 2040 Strategy Group, which provides assessments, trainings, and strategic advice to corporations, governments, and non-profits.
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May Reparations Strategy Session featuring Kristi Williams and Vanessa Hall-Harper: Self-Determination Now and the History of Black Wallstreet
2024-05-23 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom

2024 American Constitution Society Convention Panelist
2024-06-06 - 2024-06-08 | Westin Peachtree Plaza, 210 Peachtree St. NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Register at: https://www.acslaw.org/get-involved/acs-conventions/2024-acs-national-convention/

Enterprise Black Employee Network (EBEN) Juneteenth Celebration
2024-06-11 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Zoom Link:
https://enterprisecommunity.zoom.us/j/97977820185?pwd=[REDACTED]
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Juneteenth - Freedom Day
2024-06-11 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)

FirstRepair Regional Reparations Retreat - Self Determination & Leadership
2024-06-13 - 2024-06-15 | Vernon AMC Church, 311 N. Greenwood, Tulsa, OK, United States

Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington, DC - Juneteenth Screening: The Big Payback
2024-06-17 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Edlavitch Jewish Community Center, Washington, DC
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https://www.edcjcc.org/jxj/show/juneteenth-screening-the-big-payback/

June Reparations Strategy Session featuring ALäZ: Black Music Amplifying Reparations
2024-06-27 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom

Evanston 4th of July Parade Grand Marshal
2024-07-04 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Evanston, Evanston, IL

Evanston 4th of July Parade
2024-07-04 08:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | Evanston, Evanston, IL

Black 2 San Francisco Summer Fellows HBCU Satellite
2024-07-08 11:00 - 14:00, 2024-07-09 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | 101 Howard, 101 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States

FirstRepair Tabling @ LUSH
2024-07-12 12:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Old Orchard Mall, Skokie, IL, United States

East Strategy Session
2024-07-16 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom

FirstRepair Mural Unveiling
2024-07-16 16:30 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | FirstRepair Office, 1900 Asbury ave, Evanston, IL, 60201, United States
The FirstRepair headquarters in Evanston, Illinois is now wrapped in a vibrant mural representing the reparations movement and the historic steps of the Evanston community. Join us for our mural unveiling!

Midwest Strategy Session
2024-07-23 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom

National Reparations Strategy Session
2024-07-25 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom

Reparations NOW podcast - Reflections on Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
2024-07-28 16:15 - 17:15 (America/Chicago)

Race-specific Reparations Session
2024-07-30 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)

August Reparations Strategy Session featuring Virginie Ladisch: Reparations in International Comparative Perspective
2024-08-22 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom
Virginie Ladisch is a senior expert in truth seeking and reparative justice at the International Center for Transitional Justice. She currently leads ICTJ’s work in the United Stated and its research and work on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). She has provided technical support to transitional justice processes in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Liberia, The Gambia, Kenya, Nepal, Tunisia, and Uganda.  Virginie has expertise in convening and facilitating dialogues to advance justice, particularly with marginalized groups.
Prior to joining ICTJ, Virginie was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for independent research, during which she conducted fieldwork on truth commissions and reconciliation in South Africa and Guatemala.  Her work has been published in the International Journal of Transitional Justice, the Journal of Public and International Affairs, the Cyprus Review, and the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. Virginie Ladisch holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a B.A. in Political Science from Haverford College.
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Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference
2024-09-11 08:00 - 2024-09-15 17:00 (America/Chicago)

Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference PANELIST Reparations Now: America's Historical Unpaid Debt to Descendants of Formerly Enslaved Africans
2024-09-13 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Walter E. Washington Convention Center room 206, 801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States

September Reparations Strategy Session featuring Tonika Johnson and Amber Hendley: The Folded Map Project
2024-09-26 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Zoom

Discovering Catharine, Inspiring Action Guest Speaker: Elisa Walker
2024-10-08 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | 1702 Chicago Avenue Evanston, IL 60201
Join us for a screening of the new film Discovering Catharine by Susan Hope Engel, which explores the life and legacy of Evanstonian Catharine Waugh McCulloch (1862 – 1945), an early female attorney, active Woman’s Club Member, and a fervent champion of women’s rights. Catharine’s extraordinary story will be used as a launching point for a post-film discussion with a multi-generational group of Evanston-based female activists and change-makers. Guest panelists include: Elisa Karen Walker: staff and board member at First Repair, Olivia Ohlson: Evanston Township High School senior and 2021 “Future of Evanston Award” winner, and more.
