Watch: Why Reparations Isn鈥檛 Just About Money

Feb 16, 2023

Right-wing attacks on education about accurate American history continue to gain steam, particularly with respect to teaching accounts of Black history. But knowing history helps lay the groundwork for justice. Now, a new report, 鈥溾€� by , examines how changing anti-Black narratives and reducing the racial wealth gap are central to the project of reparations for historical injustice.

精东影业 Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Aria Florant, co-founder and managing director of Liberation Ventures and lead author of the report, and Trevor Smith, director of narrative change at Liberation Ventures.

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Sonali Kolhatkar joined 精东影业 in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽精东影业 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.