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Monthly Reparations Strategy Session - October 2023: Kamm Howard, Founder of Reparations United
2023-10-26 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
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KAMM HOWARD’S BIO
Kamm Howard, MBA, is a national and internationally reparations activist. Former National Cochair of N’COBRA. While at N’COBRA 2006-2022, he assisted in forming the vision and developed, led and implemented many actions in reparations movement . In addition, Kamm is a Commissioner of the National African American Reparations Commission where he led in revising the federal legislation HR 40, He sits on the Boards of First Repair – founded by Robin Rue Simmons of Evanston Illinois, and Global Black was started by Dr. Amara Enya. Additionally, he sits on the Advisory Council of the African American Redress Network.
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Making Connections Annual Summit
2023-10-28 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
Making Connections Annual Summit is set to change the way we interact with and as BIPOC-led community-based organizations. Our vision is that you use the Making Connections (MC 5.0) platform and affiliates to access accurate community based organizational news, contact information for willing and eager sponsors, as well as resources for businesses of all sizes. MC 5.0 will also include workshops on fundraising and management for non-profit organizations, and will connect corporations, businesses, and foundations to the non-profit community, building vital business relationships along the way. So get ready for our Making Connections Annual Summit event, where opportunity is greeted with a handshake.
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NAACP Beloit Chapter Freedom Fund Gala
2023-11-02 17:30 - 22:00 (America/Chicago)
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YWomen Honoree: Robin Rue Simmons, FirstRepair's Executive Director
2023-11-04 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)
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National Race Amity Conference
2023-11-10 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago)
The concept of Race Amity has been around for more than a century, and many people understand it to be a cross-racial, collaborative methodology for approaching racial healing.  But how practical is it?  Can we really use this approach to address real world organizational and societal challenges?  Is it too “soft” to address the difficult trials that we face today?
Our focus this year will be on exactly that challenge:  how to create cultures in organizations and society that use Race Amity as a strategic approach.

Champaign-Urbana Reparation Coalition (CURC) - Robin Rue Simmons, Keynote Speaker
2023-11-16 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago)

Evanston Symposium for State & Local Reparations Leaders
2023-11-30 09:00 - 2023-12-02 17:00 (America/Chicago)
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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
Get more information:
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
