Interested in deepening your understanding of US history and the effects of institutional racism?
Consider doing a self-guided internship or student project with us!
The purpose of the Uncovering History: Walking the Path of Repair program is to bring African Americans together with European Americans to study erased history, understand the historical basis for the current racial wealth gap, and deconstruct the bootstrap and meritocracy arguments. In addition, we hope to facilitate a change in European Americans’ attitudes, replacing the passive understanding of history with a sense of personal accountability and responsibility for righting the wrongs of the past. Finally, we hope to build support for the movement for reparations. It is our hope that this program brings about racial healing through the fulfillment of justice.
The program is offered on-line as a self-study opportunity; each curriculum was beta-tested in 2021 and 2022 with multiple cohorts of reparationists.
Intern Spotlight
Caleigh Grogan is a Masters of Divinity student at Harvard Divinity School, where she is preparing for Unitarian Universalist ordination. Caleigh has had the honor of learning about and beginning her journey in the work of reparations through the course "Reparations as Spiritual Practice" taught by Dr. David Ragland co-founder of the Truth Telling Project.
As part of her work with Dr. Ragland, Caleigh interned with Reparations4slavery and helped update our Faith Communities: Designing a Plan of Repair, adding a curriculum for Unitarian Universalist congregations walking the path of repair.
"Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.”