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  • August 2024

  • Thu 22

    August Reparations Strategy Session featuring Virginie Ladisch: Reparations in International Comparative Perspective

    August 22, 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
    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, […]

  • September 2024

  • Wed 11

    Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference

    September 11, 2024 @ 8:00 am - September 15, 2024 @ 5:00 pm
  • Fri 13

    Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference PANELIST Reparations Now: America’s Historical Unpaid Debt to Descendants of Formerly Enslaved Africans

    September 13, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
    Walter E. Washington Convention Center room 206 801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC, United States
  • Thu 26

    September Reparations Strategy Session featuring Tonika Johnson and Amber Hendley: The Folded Map Project

    September 26, 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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  • October 2024

  • Tue 8

    Discovering Catharine, Inspiring Action Guest Speaker: Elisa Walker

    October 8, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    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 […]

  • Fri 18

    Robin Rue-Simmons Panelist – Loyola Chicago ” Reckoning with History: Jesuit Slaveholding and the Present Work of Restorative Justice.”

    October 18, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    Information Commons 4th Floor, Lake Shore Campus Loyola University Chicago

    Ms. Simmons' panel is focused on the Praxis of Reconciliation. We would like to learn about Evanston and First Repair's efforts in reconciling with its history.

  • Thu 24

    October Reparations Strategy Session

    October 24, 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
    Zoom

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  • Sat 26

    SAARC World of Repair

    October 26, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

    RSVP for an exciting evening on October 26, 6pm, celebrating Seattle’s rich jazz legacy and SAARC’s mission to usher in a future where we realize reparations for local Black communities. Special guests include Robin Rue Simmons, Larry Gossett, and more!

  • November 2024

  • Thu 21

    November Reparations Strategy Session featuring Richard Brookshire: The Black Veterans Project

    November 21, 2024 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
    Zoom

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  • December 2024

  • Wed 4

    4th Annual Evanston Symposium for State and Local Reparations Leaders

    December 4, 2024 - December 6, 2024
  • January 2025

  • Thu 23

    FirstRepair | AARN | ICTJ: Local Reparations Strategy Session

    January 23, 2025 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

    January's topic: National Resource Center for State and Local Reparations:
    2025 Programming

  • February 2025

  • Sat 22

    Mural Unveiling and Arts & Reparations Program

    February 22, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    FirstRepair National resource center 1900 Asbury ave, Evanston, IL, United States

    Join us for an afternoon of creativity, history, and activism as FirstRepair presents Reparations Are Due!, an exhibit by nationally celebrated artist Tonika Lewis Johnson. This powerful installation highlights the impact of systemic injustices and the ongoing fight for reparations, bringing historical narratives into contemporary conversations through art. The fight for reparations is not just a […]

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