Spirituality and Reparations webinar
Channel: FellowshipUSA
Date: 2019-03-05

If slavery is considered one of the most tragic of America’s original sins, we must ask if that harm has been addressed adequately. The answer is resoundingly no. At a time where the United States deepens its entrenchment in violence on multiple levels, reparations from a spiritual and interfaith approach addresses the unaddressed. This conversation seeks to move us beyond confined ways of thinking about repair for moral and material harm of Black descendants of the Transatlantic Slave Trade into healing, compensation, spiritual practices, solidarity, and decoloniality.

This interfaith panel of speakers includes:
* Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, board chair of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, and founding member of Jewish Voice for Peace's Rabbinic Council
* Rev. Renita Green, past of St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church, Cape Girardeau MO, and community organizer & founder, The People's Shelter
* His Excellency Nana Kwesi Jumoke Ifetayo Frimpong, Southeast regional representative of National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA), and president of the provisional government, Republic of New Afrika
* Dante Washington, constitutional & criminal law attorney, Yale Divinity School graduate, & consultant at Sacred Navigation
*  Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Zen Buddhist teacher, author of "Being Black" and "Radical Dharma," & founding director of the Center for Transformative Change

This live program was hosted online in November 2018 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and the Truth Telling Project of Ferguson, and-sponsored by NCOBRA, Coming To The Table, and Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth. The conversation was moderated by:
* Chrissi Jackson, field director of FOR’s Truth & Reparations campaign, and co-director of the Truth Telling Project
* Dr. David Ragland, senior Bayard Rustin fellow at FOR and co-founder of the Truth Telling Project