REPARATIONS & RACIAL JUSTICE
Repairing historical harm. Building a just future.
Reparations are more than just financial restitution; they are a moral, social, and economic investment in justice and equity. They recognize the centuries of systemic exploitation and discrimination against Black communities and seek to correct these historical injustices with meaningful, transformative action.
The effects did not end with slavery or segregation. Disparities in wealth, housing, education, health, employment, land ownership, and political power reflect the continuing consequences of these historic injustices.
For generations, Black communities have experienced enslavement, racial violence, land loss, segregation, discriminatory public policy, and exclusion from opportunities to build and transfer wealth.
Reparations is more than compensation. It is a process of acknowledging harm, repairing its continuing consequences, restoring what was taken or denied, and creating conditions in which future generations can thrive.
Our Reparations Work
What UICD Is Doing
UICD works to advance reparations through public education, community organizing, research, advocacy, and coalition building. We connect the history of racial injustice to present-day conditions while helping communities explore practical pathways toward repair and self-determination.
Education & Dialogue
Workshops, study groups, public forums, and educational resources that deepen understanding of reparations.
Community Organizing
Building relationships and supporting local efforts that turn education into collective action.
Advocacy & Coalition Building
Working with local, state, national, and international partners to advance reparative policies and strengthen the broader movement.
Reparations Resources & Partners
Connect to the Movement
Reparations is a local, national, and global movement. Explore organizations and networks advancing reparations, racial justice, and meaningful repair.
National African American
Reparations Commission
A national commission advancing reparatory justice for people of African descent in the United States.
Reparations United
A reparations organization connecting education, advocacy, and organizing to build support for reparative justice.
The Who We Are Project
Examines anti-Black racism in U.S. history through education, dialogue, healing, and change.
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South Carolina Reparations Alliance
Advances reparative justice through education, advocacy, and organizing across South Carolina.
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Reparations Research Guide
Research and educational resources on the history and movement for reparations.
The Case for Reparations: A Human Rights Approach
Explores reparations through a human rights framework and the continuing struggle for racial justice.