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Educational Resources

STATE- LEVEL REPORTS

California Task Force. "The California Reparations Report." California Department of Justice, 29 June 2023.

 

New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies. "NYC For Racial Justice Final Report." State of New York. December 28, 2021.

 

New Jersey Reparations Council. "New Jersey Reparations Council Final Report." New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, June 2025.

RESEARCH SOURCES & PUBLICATIONS

Bilmes, Linda J. and Cornell William Brooks. “Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans.” The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. June 2024.

 

Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. “Confronting Slavery's Legacy: The Reparations Question.” Brown University's Slavery and Justice Report with Commentary on Context and Impact. Brown University, 2021.

 

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic, June 2014.

 

Reneau, Olivia J. “Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Local Proposals for Black Reparations.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 3, 2024, pp. 140–161.

 

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Center for Policy Analysis and Research. “Reparations More than 150 Years Later: The Case of Restorative Justice Policy in Evanston, IL.” 17 Feb. 2022.

 

Newton, Monique and Matthew D. Nelsen. “The Politics of Expedience: Evanston, Illinois, and the Fight for Reparations.” The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. June 2024.

 

Everingham, Karen E. “African Americans in Illinois.” Historic Preservation Division, Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

 

Ammons, Aaron and Grant Chassy. "A Road Map for Repairing the Harm: The History of Racially Restrictive Covenants." Public I, 1 April 2024.

 

Cha-Jua, Sundiata. “Reparations: The Time has Come.” The News-Gazette. March 28, 2026.

 

Cobb, Deirdre Lynn. “Jim Crow Room & Board: The Experiences of African American Students at UIUC 1945 to 1955​.” MA thesis, 1997.

 

Knight-Gibson, Louise. “Jeffrey Trask on Why Reparations Are a Win for Everyone.” 30 Nov. 2023.

 

American Academy of Family Physicians. “Health Impact of Reparations for Black Americans (Position Paper).” 2 Sept. 2025.

BOOKS

Darity, William A., Jr., and A. Kirsten Mullen. “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century.” The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

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​Fennell, Christopher. “Examining Structural Racism in the Jim Crow Era of Illinois.” The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Post-Emancipation Life. Jodi Barnes, Editor. U of South Carolina Press, 2011, 173-189.

 

Winbush, Raymond A., editor. “Should America Pay? Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations.” Amistad, 2003.

 

Taifa, Nkechi. “Reparations on Fire: How and Why It's Spreading Across America.” House of Songhay II, 2022.

 

Robinson, Randall. “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks.” Dutton, 2000.

 

Berry, Mary Frances. “My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations.” Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

 

Rochester, Shawn. “The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America.” Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2021.

 

Shapiro, Thomas M. “The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality.” Oxford University Press, 2004.

PODCAST

Ranalli, Ralph, host. “The United States Pays Reparations Every Day—Just Not to Black America.” PolicyCast, Harvard Kennedy School, 3 Feb. 2022.