The Four Pillars 

of a Comprehensive Reparations Program*


1. Eligibility requires both a lineage and identity test.

2. The redress must bring the average wealth of black households up to the level of white households.

3. Payments are to be made directly to eligible recipients.

4. The Federal Government must pay the debt.


* (as presented by the authors of FROM HERE TO EQUALITY

40 ACRES AND A MULE

"When the Civil War ended, a promise was made to the formerly enslaved that they would receive 40 acre land grants as restitution for their years of subjugation. President Lincoln's emissary, General William T. Sherman, issued Special Field Order 15, designating a 5.3 million-acre strip of land stretching from Charleston, SC to St. John's River, FL (highlighted in red below) to be set aside  in 40 acre allotments.  After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his successor, Andrew Johnson, a white supremacist, cancelled the order."
The Black Reparations Project

The current value of those 40 acres - calculated from 1865 at 6% interest - is now worth close to $2.5 trillion, or $70-80,000 for every black American descended from a formerly enslaved person.

Land designated for freed slaves after the Civil War

Recommended Reading

For those of us interested in helping move the topic of Reparations from the edges of our national conversation to its center, FROM HERE TO EQUALITY is an essential resource and a powerful guide.

Here is the course in American History missing from high school curriculums, delivering clarity to the relationship between the symptoms of a diseased nation and its black/white wealth gap.

Best of all, FROM HERE TO EQUALITY presents the first and only comprehensive plan for National Reparations.


Recommended Reading


A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project gathers an accomplished interdisciplinary team of scholars—members of the Reparations Planning Committee—who have considered the issues pertinent to making reparations happen. This book will be an essential resource in the national conversation going forward.