Ultimately, a national program of reparations is necessary to effect true repair for 400 years of slavery, Black Codes, Jim Crow laws and the many other federal, state and local policies that have blocked Black economic progress and resulted in the current 10:1 racial wealth gap. Yet, harm happens at the local level and must therefore be repaired at the local level.  Our belief is that if repair begins at the local level, it will provide momentum for the national reparations movement as well.