April newsletter

REPARATIVE REVIEW

Join us for the 5th Sacred Reparative Season beginning June 19 and ending August 31st. This year’s theme centers a reparative sense of place.

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April 21st @ 5pm EST:

During this season we want you to consider the following: What are the sacred spaces ( e.g. spaces where spirit is known to be present or places where racial trauma or violence occurred) in your community?

We ask you to find and hold ceremonies or create rituals at those places in your communities that have strong historical significance and that can become sacred spaces where prayers, truth-telling, healing and a demand for justice and reparations and repair can occur

To learn more about how you and your spiritual or ethically centered organization can participate in the season, we will be offering two Teach-In’s in the month of April.

Over the past five years, many confederate monuments have been brought down because of racial justice organizing and activism Recently Savannah, GA, led by Patt Gunn, changed a square named after a prominent confederate to Susie King Taylor Sq., who was an enslaved teacher and later Union nurse during the civil war.

Support Patt our Natl Policy Fellow who is also leading the charge to raise funds for a memorial and educational center .

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April 28th @5pm EST:

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This image is policy maker and historian, Sistah Patt Gunn

We are thrilled to announce the 2024 National Endowment for the Humanities Cultural and Community program awarded the Truth Telling Project, in partnership with the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict at George Mason University, a oneyear grant to research, recover and document oral histories of the Forsyth Expulsion with the community of descendants and the wider diaspora of people impacted by this racially violent historical legacy. The grant entitled, “Truth Telling About Collective Resilience and Diasporic Communities: Navigating Displacement, Erasure and the Impacts of COVID 19,” aims to access archival materials of the Expulsion collect stories, produce maps, design and promote curricular resources so that educators can teach the truth about this brutal and lesser known legacy of the Jim Crow era. The Carter School team is led by Dr. Arthur Romano, a TTP Advisory Council member, and the TTP team includes Master Storyteller and oral historian Sistah Patt Gunn, Rachel Davis and is coordinated by Dr. Melinda Salazar.

Please reach out to Melinda if you, or anyone you know, holds memory of the Forsyth County Expulsion and would like to be interviewed. We would love to hear your story.

Organizers from our #Ferguson Uprising community and from the Truth Telling Project are telling the story of our experience in the Ferguson protest movement, and how we utilized the strategy of truth, reconciliation and reparations toward Black Liberation.

This coming August will commemorate ten years since the Murder of Mike Brown Jr. by the Ferguson police department Prepare yourself for the launch of our very own Truth and Reparations Movement Podcast. Join us as Luke McGowan, organizer and writer at TTP walks us through our experience on the path of liberation through truth and reparations

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CONGRATULATIONS SAVANNAH!:

The day is finally here, Susie King Taylor Square has now named a public square! She is “Taylor Square,” located in the 400 Block of Aberorn at Taylor Street in Savannah, GA. This square is sacred to social and human rights activists, citizens, Elders, because of the three-and-a-half-year journey to “get her done!”

“I have always known that “powerful things” can happen around tables of grace!”

~ Patt Gunn, TTP Fellow and Radical Truth Teller

GRC Autumn Film festival

September 27th - 29th

Grassroots Reparations Campaign/The Truth

Telling Project are excited to announce that they are planning an autumn film festival. This will focus on reparations, history, repair, and healing and will take place in Cambridge Massachusetts with the exact location TBA. The planning team would love to get community feedback on which films to show during the festival To add your input, please fill out the survey below!

Pictured above: Patt Gunn

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We are building a public database that aggregates data on corporate practices with a lens on racial justice to provide information in a simple and digestible way.

Armed with this information, users are empowered to overcome complicity in injustice by making more informed choices in their everyday spending.

By donating to support the Truth Telling Project, you can directly contribute to the crucial work of activists fighting for racial justice in their communities.

Funding is reparative because it helps us build the movements we need for social, political and economic accountability and justice. Join us in keeping our movements strong!