Liberation Ventures
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Liberation Ventures
@liberationventures.bsky.social
Liberation Ventures is working to make reparations for Black Americans common sense and commonplace in our lifetime.

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The struggle for a Third Reconstruction is the struggle for repair, justice, and multiracial democracy. Honoring the legacies of marginalized communities is essential to building a fair and just society. Read how bold action today can reshape tomorrow: nonprofitquarterly.org/why-the-stru...
Why the Struggle for a Third Reconstruction Remains the Struggle for Our Times | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
At a time of racial justice backlash, a call for a full-throated multiracial democracy may seem audacious—it’s also a necessary movement to preserve US democracy at all.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Bryan Stevenson shows that repair isn’t optional. His memorials, museums, and sanctuaries confront slavery, lynching, and mass incarceration, restore dignity and legacy. Read how one person is turning truth-telling into justice: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told
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November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The MFA Boston returned David Drake’s vessels to his descendants; a powerful act of repair. Real justice restores legacy, agency, and ownership. Restitution is how systems honor the past and shape a fairer future. Read more: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
MFA Boston Restitutes Two Ceramic Vessels to Descendants of Enslaved Artist David Drake
The MFA Boston has restituted two ceramic vessels to the descendants of enslaved artist David Drake, repurchasing one for its collection.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Race Forward’s Just Narratives for Multiracial Solidarity 2025 convenes storytellers, strategists & organizers to strengthen the narrative ecosystem for racial justice. Building the stories—and solidarity—needed for a just, multiracial democracy. www.raceforward.org/training-and...
Just Narratives for Multiracial Solidarity | Race Forward
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November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Evanston’s reparations program shows that governance is repair. Iterative design, transparency, and accountability make reparations sustainable. We champion this model of structural justice.

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Reparations Committee finalizes 2025 grant recipients - Evanston RoundTable
The city's Reparations Committee has finalized the number of grant recipients for this year, dolling out $25,000 in cash benefits to 45 ancestors and
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November 7, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The UK debate on slavery reparations shows repair requires public institutions, not goodwill alone. Lasting accountability demands infrastructure across generations.

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November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Detroit’s housing reparations program is repairing generational harm through homeownership. We uplift this work because lasting repair is material, structured, and generationally transformative. #Reparations
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Reparations program offers $25,000 in housing support to Black metro Detroiters
Reparation Generation, a national nonprofit, aims to help Black descendants of enslaved people in the U.S., living in metro Detroit, purchase homes.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Election Day is a test of repair. Buttigieg’s call for a “new sense of belonging” echoes the reparations movement: true belonging comes through truth, accountability, and shared investment in systems that honor everyone’s humanity: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...
Opinion | Pete Buttigieg on Rebuilding America After Trump
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November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter reminds us that reparations must include cultural repair. Education is narrative power: when history is distorted, justice is stalled. Liberation Ventures uplifts this work because truth-telling is a core condition for repair.

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Reparations and Education: Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter on California’s AB 7 and Social Repair
What role does social repair play in reparations, and how does AB 7 connect to broader legal and historical frameworks?
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October 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The AAMC Center for Health Justice’s latest reparations report reframes repair as governance: if harm was structured, redress must be too. Durable reparations require infrastructure capable of stewarding justice across generations.

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Client Challenge
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October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The Georgia Supreme Court’s ruling to protect Hogg Hummock affirms a vital truth: land is memory, and preservation is repair. Liberation Ventures celebrates this victory for descendants safeguarding a living Gullah-Geechee legacy. #Reparations

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Georgia's highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community
Georgia's highest court is siding with Black landowners in a zoning dispute affecting a historic Gullah-Geechee community.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Liberation Ventures uplifts the CA Farmer Justice Collaborative Rural Justice Summit, a space for farmers and advocates to build just, interdependent systems of care and sustainability. Repair begins with those who steward the land.

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Rural Justice Summit 2025 | Cumbre de Justicia Rural 2025
The Rural Justice Summit (RJS) will bring together and center farmers/land ecosystem tenders in both rural and urban areas of California.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Liberation Ventures uplifts the Tulsa Black Mental Health Alliance for building a culture of repair. Mental health equity is repair in action. #reparations

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Home - Tulsa Black Mental Health Alliance
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October 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
California’s new reparations bills create infrastructure for repair. Polling from Liberation Ventures shows 45% support comprehensive reparations— a growing mandate for investment, healing, and accountability statewide.

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Reparations Bills Establish Foundation to Turn California’s Vision Into Reality | KQED
The new laws strengthen California’s commitment to repairing the harms of slavery, signaling a long-term effort that’s gaining power and purpose.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
California advances reparations: Gov. Newsom signed 5 bills, including SB 518 to create the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery. Progress builds in stages—each step moves repair from vision to reality.
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Newsom Vetoes Undercut Reparations Gains for Black Descendants in California | KQED
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would have given descendants of enslaved people preferences in college admissions, housing and business programs.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In 1838, Georgetown sold 272 enslaved people to survive. Today, its $400K Reconciliation Fund—co-created with Descendant leaders—marks progress toward repair. True reconciliation demands continued investment, shared power, and truth-telling.

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Reconciliation Fund - Georgetown University
The Reconciliation Fund, inspired by a 2019 student referendum, awards $400,000 annually to community-based projects that have direct impact on Descendant communities whose ancestors were once enslave...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We’re uplifting @kinfolktech.bsky.social KIN: A Festival of Memory and Imagination, a living archive that resists erasure through art, story, and collective reimagining. #Repair begins when we reclaim our right to remember.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Assata Shakur taught: freedom builds outward. Her passing opens grief, but her legacy endures — demanding that repair be collective, that memory be justice, that our freedom is bound to others’. We honor her by continuing the work.
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Virginia Theological Seminary’s new Reparations Memorial names those who labored there—known and unknown. It is tied to an ongoing reparations program. Healing memory demands accountability, and institutions must confront their legacies to truly repair. #reparations

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Virginia Theological Seminary breaks ground on Reparations Memorial | Virginia Theological Seminary
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October 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
From the UN floor, Haiti demands more than security — it demands repair. President Saint Cyr invokes centuries of debt, a new suppression mission, and structural redress from France. Liberation isn’t aid. It’s accountability, reclamation, and collective sovereignty.
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Haiti demands a new international force and reparations from France
“This is the face of Haiti today: a country at war, a modern-day Guernica, a human tragedy.” From the podium of the UN General Assembly, Haiti’s transitional leader delivered a stark plea to the inter...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
BLLNAP preserves untold stories of Black land dispossession. Repair requires truth-telling. Without reckoning with stolen land, we cannot address the racial wealth gap or move toward justice.

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Black Land Loss Narrative Archive Project
Collecting, preserving, and amplifying stories of Black Land Loss, to inspire public awareness, community activism, political leadership, and change.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Poetic Justice uses art to show repair must be cultural & material. By centering restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction, & non-repetition, it turns stories of harm into a call for collective justice.

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Poetic Justice: A Case for Reparations — Marijuana Justice - Virginia
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October 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
For 25 years, @equaljustice.bsky.social has advanced racial justice through law, advocacy, and culture. Join their anniversary gala on Dec 5 at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel to celebrate their legacy and step into the next chapter. Learn more: ejs.io/25th
EJS 25th Anniversary
The Equal Justice Society’s 25th Anniversary Gala will be on December 5, 2025, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Join EJS as we commemorate a quarter-century of impact. We’ll look b…
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September 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
In an age of misinformation, local journalism is more important than ever. Here,
‪@freepress.bsky.social‬ share their efforts to strengthen local journalism, including partnering with @media2070.bsky.social‬ to create a Reparative Journalism Reflection & Discussion Guide.
September 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
30 years may have passed, but our fight persists. In this 1995 interview, Nkechi Taifa spoke to the need for reparations and also highlighted many of the systemic challenges in the Black community back then that still exist today.
September 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM