Reparations: Remedy the Redline

Reparations: Remedy the Redline
November 20, 2021

Moderated by Linda Mann, Director of the African American Redress Network, Columbia University

Panelists: Irene Jang, Research Assistant, Barnard College; Corey Shaw, Student Researcher, University of District of Columbia; James Lennox, Student Researcher, University of District of Columbia; Claire Choi, Program Assistant, Columbia University

The African American Redress Network (AARN) engages in local-level reparation efforts. AARN uses a human rights framework when analyzing the gross wrongs of enslavement, dispossession, and institutionalized anti-Black violence. Our model draws inspiration from United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/147 and guidance by the International Commission of Jurists. AARN provides research, education, and technical assistance to grassroots organizations to advance local reparations. A majority of our efforts focus on Black land loss. This presentation will highlight two of our efforts: Evanston, Illinois, and Brown Grove, Virginia. This workshop will examine how these communities were purposefully, racially segregated including, zoning ordinances and red-lining, the immediate and contemporary effects of these policies on housing, schools, services, and more, and current-day efforts to alter the legacies via reparations. Additionally, participants will explore how these communities are seeking repair within the framework of International Human Rights.

For more information about this program:
https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/undesign-the-redline-barnard-symposium/

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