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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · 4h

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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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · 1d

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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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · 5d

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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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · 6d

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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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · 8d

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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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · 9d

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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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · 13d

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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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · 14d

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.

Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · 15d

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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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · 19d

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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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · 21d

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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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · 21d

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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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Sep 26

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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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Sep 10

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.

Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Sep 2

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.

Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Aug 25

Starting today, the LV team will be on Wellness Week.

We understand that in order to remain committed to the work, we must make space to rest, reflect and rejuvenate.

We’ll be back Tues, Sep 2nd to continue the work to realize #reparations in our lifetime!

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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Aug 22

Remembrance without repair is not justice. On August 23, we honor the resistance to the transatlantic slave trade, as well as the birth of the Haitian revolution—and recommit to the work of reparations. Memory matters. But closing the wealth gap takes action.

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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Aug 21

The President wants to erase the telling of our history at the Smithsonian. This undermines a key component #reparations, Reckoning. As Leah Wright Rigeur shares, “ it tells a story that is very much about a quest for democracy and the way that Americans built this country.”

Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Aug 12

Black August is an opportunity to learn the history, achievements, and lessons of Black abolitionists and civil rights leaders. We affirm that reckoning and #reparations are the truest path to freedom and equity for generations to come. Thanks @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social for the education.

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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Aug 8

On Aug 10, 1988, the U.S. apologized and paid redress to Japanese Americans for WWII internment. This is #reparations in practice. We’ve done it before. We can do it again. Repair is not a dream, it’s a decision. #Reparations

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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Aug 4

The Episcopal Diocese of New York announced it will dedicate $1 million to racial #reparations efforts within and outside the church. The commission will also consider ways to make direct payments to descendants of slaves, inspired by projects by other dioceses.

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NY's Episcopal Diocese launches $1M racial reparations fund

"New York was the center of the slave trade in the United States," said Boshop Matthew Heyd of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. "That evil is part of the fabric of the diocese, and we're trying to r...

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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Jul 29

Last month, Rep Al Green introduced a landmark bill: “Original Justice for Living Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa/Greenwood Race Massacre Act.” This would provide direct compensation to the two remaining living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. #Reparations

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Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Jul 25

Today, we recognize what would have been the 84th birthday of #EmmettTill. Emmett's tragic death launched a movement. But he should be alive today. If we are to move forward and create a nation where that truly embodies the value of freedom, we must recognize and repair the harms of the past.

Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Jul 24

We’re still dreaming about the 3 days of strategic thinking and restoration we spent with 130 #reparations leaders last May in Cali.

Baldwin's words from 1963 guide us: we must "achieve our country"-not the one that exists, but the one that must become. Grateful for this community. #ReparationsNow

Liberation Ventures @liberationventures.bsky.social · Jul 15

Five years ago, Asheville NC voted to begin local #reparations, offering a public apology and investing in Black communities. It didn’t solve everything. But it set a precedent. Local action is part of national repair.

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A Liberal North Carolina Town Has Unanimously Voted to Give Its Black Residents Reparations | The Root

Phew, 2020 sure is something different.In a unanimous decision, Asheville, N.C.’s City Council has voted to give reparations to its Black residents.The

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