The Reparations Project’s first educational initiative —
Social Justice Scholars — supports 11 HBCU students at
Spelman, Morehouse, and Clark Atlanta in their work
toward creating a platform for social change that is
undergirded by an anti-racist framework.
Quarterman & Keller Social Justice Scholars engage in social justice engagements and activities supported by the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Center established at Spelman College under the auspices of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. The Center is directed and managed by the Director of the Social Justice Program, Dr. Cynthia Spence.
Black Education
The Quarterman & Keller Social Justice Scholars program with Spelman College, Morehouse, and Clark Atlanta supports HBCU scholars as they work toward change.
Among other things, scholars in the program will engage in oral history work and work surrounding descendant families and healing, including an oral history of the Quarterman family, in Port Wentworth and Savannah.
Black Education
The Quarterman & Keller Social Justice Scholars program with Spelman College, Morehouse, and Clark Atlanta supports HBCU scholars as they work toward change.
Among other things, scholars in the program will engage in oral history work and work surrounding descendant families and healing, including an oral history of the Quarterman family, in Port Wentworth and Savannah.
We are thrilled to have awarded two $2,500 Social Justice Scholarships to Georgia Southern University political science major Rachal Phillips and elementary education major Leah Mikell who are part of the new Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Center at Georgia Southern in Savannah. The students’ research, which will examine the effects of a Eurocentric education system on the Black community and why many Black Americans are not aware of the Gullah Geechee community, respectively, will be presented at Georgia Southern’s Research Symposium in April 2022.
Black Land
The Reparations Project was thrilled and honored to pay $10,000 in reparations, part of our larger initiative and reparations fund for descendant families in Port Wentworth, Georgia, to Bob and Bill Johnson, who own and operate Promised Land Farm. Promised Land is one of very few Black-owned farms in Chatham County, Georgia.
We would like to extend a special thanks to our cultural advisor in Georgia, Patt Gunn, President of The Center for Jubilee, Reconciliation, and Healing, Inc. of Savannah, Georgia.
The Reparations Project seeks to help prevent Black land loss where the needs are greatest in Beaufort County, SC and Chatham County, GA. We are currently collaborating with The Pan-African Family Empowerment & Land Preservation Network to provide funding to redeem properties for Gullah Geechee families on Hilton Head Island, just outside of Savannah, GA. Please watch this Soledad O’Brien episode about Gullah Geechee land on Hilton Head Island, featuring Theresa White of PAFEN.
Narratives
We believe truth telling and authentic relationships are key to our nation’s healing and repair. We hope that our story will inspire others to interrogate their history and tell their story too. Through Narrative, we amplify descendant-family stories and Black voices. We would love to hear your story too.