Earlier this year, Liberation Ventures opened a request for proposals for narrative projects that will help the nation reckon with its history and imagine its future for the country’s 250th anniversary in July 2026. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Meet the faces behind Liberation Ventures. These little babies are doing big things now! Our small but mighty team is accelerating the movement working towards reparations for slavery and its legacies in the U.S. www.linkedin.com/posts/libera...

Robin Proudie discovered her ancestors were enslaved by St. Louis University. Now she’s organizing with descendants to hold the institution accountable. Step by step efforts like this are building a national culture of repair. www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...

Harm reports are an important first step in reparations policy. They help communities document and acknowledge historical harm.But repair requires more than research. The real work begins after the report is written.

Our research found 33% of the American public doesn’t believe slavery impacts the present. Stories like the Natchez film start to teach a new truth. www.natchezfilm.com

What do you think it takes for a community to move from myth to truth-telling? We cannot repair what hasn’t been exposed. #reparations #repair.

You can’t heal what hasn’t been revealed. The documentary Natchez explores how one Mississippi town grapples with the legacy of slavery beneath its tourism economy. Truth-telling is where repair begins. www.natchezfilm.com

Comprehensive reparations are all around us. Have you seen any of these at play in your community?

Reparations doesn’t mean 40 acres and a mule, it’s much more: Learn more here: www.liberationventures.org/what-are-rep...

We talk a lot about reparations, but what does that mean? At the highest level, “reparations” are the process of the state making amends for harm. Learn more here: www.liberationventures.org/what-are-rep...

Building a culture of repair takes infrastructure. Our resource library supports policymakers, organizers, funders & journalists advancing reparations. Narrative + research + strategy = implementation. Explore here: www.liberationventures.org/news-and-res...

What histories are shaping your understanding of abolition and accountability?

Abolition wasn’t granted — it was fought for. New scholarship centers enslaved people’s resistance across the Atlantic world. That reframing matters. Reparations are unfinished justice. History shapes what feels possible. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

We're hiring a short-term Research Lead (contract) with expertise in clinical psychology, social psychology in alignment with LV’s Racial Repair Framework. Apply here: airtable.com/apposBicigbn...

A 2024 study found a majority of Maryland residents support reparations — the highest in the country. Public will is shifting. Faith leaders are calling for action. When data & moral clarity align, policy windows open. Read Herber Brown’s op-ed here: baltimorebeat.com/op-ed-faith-...

This is the real work - turning research into tools people actually use. Too much knowledge stays locked behind paywalls or academic walls. Making it an Airtable anyone can contribute to is smart.

Field-building requires shared knowledge. Policy implementation requires credible evidence. Narrative change requires access to powerful stories. airtable.com/appHSP8J3L7H...

Research shouldn’t sit in silos. The Reparations Research Database makes scholarship accessible to organizers, policymakers & the public. Field-building requires shared knowledge — and shared knowledge makes repair possible. Explore it. Build with it here: airtable.com/appHSP8J3L7H...

New Seattle/King County data shows 58.6% support reparations — nearly double the national average. Housing, healthcare & education investments perform strongest. Naming redlining works better than abstract framing. Communities are ready. Are institutions? drive.google.com/file/d/14WYd...

Reparations are happening now in Evanston, Illinois: $400K is going to Black churches for economic support in addition to the city’s housing repair program. It shows what reckoning, acknowledgement, accountability, and redress can look like in real time. dailynorthwestern.com/2026/02/09/c...

Policy shifts require narrative shifts. This January we trained with Fearless Communicators, crafting stories that answer: Why reparations? Why now? Why us? Data builds credibility and stories build connection. Both move repair forward.

Liberation Ventures is investing in tools and trainings to help artists, organizers, and communicators shift beliefs and strengthen the movement for reparations and racial repair. Join one of our upcoming trainings: bit.ly/BeliefArcMar11

Narrative change requires more than instinct, it requires research, strategy, and practice. Learn more about how we’re approaching narrative change: medium.com/@liberationv...

Today is Reparations Awareness Day, established by NCOBRA. For decades, organizers have built the case for repair — legal, moral & political. Today we honor this legacy and long-term advocacy by continuing their work, alongside them. ncobraphl.org/why-reparati...

In 1970, Black students at Ole Miss were arrested for demanding equity. Fifty years later, the university apologized. Apology is a first step toward institutional repair. What comes next?: truth-telling, accountability and redress www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...

In Asheville, NC, reparations leaders are linking history to health now — from the loss of the Asheville Colored Hospital to today’s gaps in infant mortality and chronic disease. The community has a blueprint: invest in Black providers, healing, and wellness. mountainx.com/news/communi...

The history of Japanese American incarceration also teaches an essential lesson about reparations. #ReparationsArePossible

Feb 19 is the Day of Remembrance for Japanese Americans incarcerated under EO 9066. Their fight for reparations showed what repair requires: reckoning, acknowledgement, accountability, redress. jacl.org/day-of-remem...

This #BlackHistoryMonth, join @liberationventures.bsky.social for another session of the Reparation Information Thought Series. The conversation starts today at 1PM ET. #BlackHistoryMonth

This is how reparations advance: Communities organize. Histories are documented. Governments formally recognize harm. Then infrastructure is created to produce accountability and redress over time. Learn more www.liberationventures.org/what-are-rep...

Each local reparations win strengthens national possibility. Every program built helps normalize the idea that repair is a responsibility of public institutions. #SantaMonica shows that cities can build pathways to repair right now.

Santa Monica did more than apologize, it committed $3.5M and built a structure to deliver repair. That’s momentum.That’s precedent. That’s accountability in action. Read the full article here: www.smdp.com/santa-monica...

The argument for Reparations is mathematically irrefutable.

Japanese American redress became possible because people came together across differences, told the truth, and refused to give up. That same solidarity is alive right now, with reparations programs popping up all over the country. www.liberationventures.org/get-involved/

At the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, a crowd watched Reparations and organized for what’s next — from local action to H.R. 40. Precedent shows repair is possible when we build together. www.dailycal.org/arts/local-e...

Repair is love in action. LV launched on Valentine’s Day to center love for Black people and the movement for racial repair. We accelerate the #reparations field and build a culture of repair across the U.S. Learn more and join us: www.liberationventures.org/who-we-are/

This Black History Month, join Reparations Education Project for another session of the Reparation Information Thought Series: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Are you working on reparations narrative projects focused on mass culture engagement? Apply by March 3 here: bit.ly/250RepNarrative

LV wants to fund narrative change work in mass culture engagement, mass media development, and curated experiences. Doing the work? Apply by March 3 here: bit.ly/250RepNarrative

The Reparative Journalism Archive by Media 2070 centers Black narrative power and community memory. Liberation Ventures celebrates this as a form of repair — confronting media harm while building alternatives rooted in truth, care, and collective imagination. mediareparations.org/reparative-j...

The start of King’s March on Washington speech is a call for reparations—that America has given people a bad check.

It's so important to tell our movement stories. they inspire and offer guidance for future organizing.

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle. But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

Let’s talk. What changes when we name how public policy produced racial harm? At Liberation Ventures, we believe honest conversation is the starting point for real repair. What truths still need naming? www.instagram.com/p/DOyeKk8jSp...

NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani named reparations advocate @darrickhamilton.bsky.social to his economic transition team. This reflects a growing recognition that racial wealth gaps are policy-made — and that repair belongs in economic planning.

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This is what happens when a nation’s political establishment ignores, denies, and funds genocide all while denying reparations for the descendants of those who were enslaved to build this country.

It’s time to bring reparations back into political discourse, and ICE restitution is a great place to start

Fulton County in Georgia extended its Reparations Task Force for two more years after releasing a detailed “Harm Report” on slavery, Jim Crow, land seizure, and ongoing harms. We welcome this concrete step: research moving toward repair, not just reflection. www.appenmedia.com/news/fulton-...