In April 2021, The African American Redress Network held Reparations 2021, sponsored by Columbia University's Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement through the Addressing Racism Seed Grant Initiative. This event provided a space for public dialogue among activists, government representatives, educators, researchers, and students. The Reparations 2021 Conference Report examines local redress efforts within four categories, Politics, Legislation, & Litigation, Advocacy & Organizing, Research & Documentation, Education & Awareness Raising. Further, the report discusses cross-sector collaborations developed as a result of the conference.
Publications
The African American Redress Network is a collaboration between Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and Howard University's Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. Founded in January 2019, AARN has released its first Annual Report highlighting the growth of the program. AARN works to advance U.S. racial justice initiatives and local reparations, while simultaneously providing students with opportunities to learn from these movements. Using a human rights framework, AARN students analyze the gross wrongs of enslavement, dispossession, and institutionalized anti-Black violence. Our model draws inspiration from the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/147 and guidance by the International Commission of Jurists (2018) to define reparations and inform our advocacy.
The Research Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights is now available.
The COVID Solidarity project, a map of community organizing related to COVID-19 in the US has now been launched.
David L. Phillips' forthcoming book, Frontline Syria: From Democratic Revolution to Proxy War, will be published by Bloomsbury later in 2020. The following text is excerpted from the chapter titled “The Shiite Crescent”.