Black Reparations Project

03/10/2026

02/21/2025

Happening Next Week!! Join us for a Two-Day Reparative Justice Event Series bringing together scholars, advocates, and community leaders to drive meaningful change. Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/towards-justice-tickets-1119058446939?aff=oddtdtcreator

02/04/2025

BRP Presents: The Black Read - Living While Black, with Ajuan Mance!!

🗓 Wednesday, February 19, 2025
📍 Mills Hall Living Room | Hybrid Event
⏰ Reception: 4:30 PM PST | Event: 5:00 PM PST

Join us for an inspiring conversation with Professor Emeritus of English and Ethnic Studies, Ajuan Mance, celebrating Black resistance through vivid illustrations. A livestreaming link will be shared closer to the event. We hope you can join us!

01/09/2025

We are honored to share the Black Reparations Project Impact Report (2022–2024), highlighting our achievements, community collaborations, and ongoing efforts to advance reparative justice. This progress would not be possible without the dedication and support of our partners, supporters, and community members. Thank you for standing with us in this important work!

Read the Report Here: https://issuu.com/blackreparationsproject/docs/brpimpactreportfinal

Read BRP Impact Report Final by Black Reparations Project on Issuu and browse thousands of other publications on our platform. Start here!

01/07/2025

Join us for a Two-Day Reparative Justice Event Series bringing together scholars, advocates, and community leaders to drive meaningful change. Stay tuned for details! Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/towards-justice-tickets-1119058446939?aff=oddtdtcreator

11/08/2024

The Black Reparations Project (BRP) is dedicated to advancing education, research, and policy on Black reparations. Upholding values of joy, healing, love, and collective liberation, BRP facilitates meaningful conversations, policy analysis, and community engagement on reparations. In this spirit, renowned genealogist Nicka Smith will lead a series of virtual workshops to deepen understanding of African American genealogy in relation to reparations. These workshops will cover the basics of family history research, the lives of the formerly enslaved, and ancestral land connections.

Join us on Tuesday, November 12th to further explore researching the formerly enslaved. Genealogists and family historians alike have spent decades looking for a tried and true method for unearthing slaveholders of those enslaved prior to 1865. Learn how three crucial record sets (Civil War Records/Pensions, the Freedmen’s Bureau, and Probates/Successions) can become just the wrecking ball needed to obliterate brick walls related to slavery.

The workshops aim to create thoughtful learning and empathy, enlightening participants about personal and collective narratives tied to reparations. Open to all and free to attend, the workshops promote genealogy awareness and a culture of healing, wellness, and inclusivity. Please register for your Zoom Link: bit.ly/millscollegenu

This event series is sponsored by the Black Reparations Project, Mills College at Northeastern University Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Grant and UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, Northeastern Law Center for Law, Equity and Race, the Nicodemus Historical Society, and Descendants of Enslaved Communities at UVA. Technical support provided by Emend The Mass Media Group.

09/27/2024

The Black Reparations Project (BRP) is partnering with renowned genealogist Nicka Smith, to lead a series of virtual workshops to deepen understanding of African American genealogy in relation to reparations. These workshops will cover the basics of family history research, the lives of the formerly enslaved, and ancestral land connections. The workshops aim to create thoughtful learning and empathy, enlightening participants about personal and collective narratives tied to reparations. Open to all and free to attend, the workshops promote genealogy awareness and a culture of healing, wellness, and inclusivity. To register and learn more about the workshop series visit: bit.ly/millscollegenu

This event series is sponsored by the Black Reparations Project, Mills College at Northeastern University Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Grant and UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, Northeastern Law Center for Law, Equity and Race, the Nicodemus Historical Society, and Descendants of Enslaved Communities at UVA. Technical support provided by Emend The Mass Media Group.

03/12/2024

Happening Next Week! To Register Visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/education-as-the-practice-of-freedom-the-black-feminist-classroom-tickets-769821134737?fbclid=IwAR3VRtcJyNOUywBkyIL3WXhKMwanTNlzzZBMlWSQ1ZKwYppo9Q4HVdZnVUA

02/28/2024

Did you miss the talk? Check out the recording below! We are immensely grateful to Northeastern University Professor Caleb Gayle for his profound presentation centered around his book "We Refuse to Forget," highlighting the necessity of , acknowledging our past to reclaim and honor our narratives and intersecting identities. See the talk here: https://performingarts.mills.edu/broadcasts/2024/gayle.php?fbclid=IwAR2Iopt_rGB0u8e2rq7c1EHef917LBuq2-GCdoFO2ocRTRw5aHX5JOvNA3o

Northeastern University Black History Month presents a livestream of a book talk by Caleb Gayle. In We Refuse to Forget, award-winning journalist Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full c...

02/27/2024

Join us tonight at 6 pm PST for a special Black History Month event, The Black Read! The Black Reparations Project is honored to welcome Northeastern University Professor Caleb Gayle, esteemed author of "We Refuse to Forget" and contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. We hope to see you there! Come in person or view on Livestream: https://performingarts.mills.edu/broadcasts/2024/gayle.php

02/16/2024

The Black Reparations Project is honored to co-host the inaugural bell hooks symposium at the Northeastern University Oakland campus, on March 22nd, 10am to 5pm PST! This event is sponsored by the Northeastern University Africana Studies Program and will honor the life and legacy of the trailblazing Black feminist scholar bell hooks (1952-2021). A prolific author, committed teacher, brilliant intellectual, unequivocal truth-teller, and bold visionary, bell hooks (née Gloria Jean Watkins) is a feminist icon who left an indelible mark on multiple generations of people including activists, artists, students, and scholars. This year's theme, “Education as the Practice of Freedom: The Black Feminist Classroom,” embodies the essence of bell hooks' teachings. We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Angela Davis and Dr. Gina Dent will be our keynote speakers, bringing their invaluable perspectives and insights to this vibrant discussion. We hope you will join us! A livestream link will be shared closer to the event. To register please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/education-as-the-practice-of-freedom-the-black-feminist-classroom-tickets-769821134737

02/16/2024

Join us for a special Black History Month event, The Black Read, on Monday, February 26th at 6 pm PST. The Black Reparations Project is honored to welcome Northeastern University Professor Caleb Gayle, esteemed author of "We Refuse to Forget" and contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. We hope to see you there! A livestream link will be shared closer to the event.