Who is
authoring
America’s
story?
Whoever frames the meaning of America’s founding—its values, its failures, its promises—will shape public consciousness for a generation.
Christian Nationalist narratives are being deployed to shape how millions of Americans, including Black and Brown people, understand the nation’s founding, its present condition, and their role in determining America's future.
Voices of Repair is a multi-tiered national intervention that activates the power of the Black Church and the Black press to strategically counter the Right’s narrative strategy.
Repair is the Antidote.
Voices of Repair is rooted in the idea that in order for our communities to be whole and our society transformed, there must be a commitment to reparations—to repairing past and present harms.
The narrative component of Voices of Repair utilizes Liberation Venture’s Reparations Framework. It applies the UN reparations definition to the human rights violations of chattel slavery and its legacies in the United States – including racial violence, Jim Crow, redlining and segregation, inequitable veterans benefits, the war on drugs, and more.
Comprehensively addressing these harms requires reckoning, acknowledgement, accountability, and redress.
The next 250 won’t be written without us.
The semiquincentennial is not just a celebration, it is a reckoning.
Black and Brown people did not just witness the making of America, we built it, sustained it, and fought to make its promises real.
Voices of Repair enters this moment as a powerful intervention, centering repair not as a political ask, but as a sacred obligation, and insisting that the next 250 years cannot be written without us.
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Are you a faith leader, lay person or organizer interested in joining VOR? Sign up here!
Registered participants will receive the VOR toolkit to support the creation of your sermon or speech.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Complete the interest form here, and a member of the VOR team will reach out within 24-hours.
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Absolutely. This administration’s use of Christian Nationalism as a cultural and political weapon is harming all of our communities. We’re calling on Black faith leaders and people of faith across religious traditions to join and share messages rooted in love, justice, liberation and repair this summer.
The toolkit provided to registered participants is rooted in the tenets of Liberation Theology and speaks primarily to the sacred texts utilized in Abrahamic traditions (Christianity, Islam and Judaism). It accounts for key differences and structural nuances found between a sermon (Christian) , a Khutbah (Islam), and a drash (Judaism); therefore, the toolkit should be used as a narrative guide, not a script.
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That’s ok! You can still participate. Again, the toolkit functions as a narrative guide on how to craft messages rooted in love, justice, liberation and repair that contend with Christian Nationalist narratives. If you have questions on how to craft a message for your congregation or community, just reach out to info@blackalderlabs.org.
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There’s never been significant progress in the fight for liberation and reparations without the support of allies. We’re calling on our allies to uplift the work of the campaign on social media and to, if you’re called, also use this summer to preach and share messages about the role Black people, our institutions and our organizing have played in America’s story. Use your platforms to call out the administration’s use of warped Christian theology to cause harm and division.
It will take all of us to make repair a reality in America’s next chapter.
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The Voices of Repair Anchor Cohort is a group of faith leaders and organizers who are committed to sharing the liberatory message of love and repair through their ministry, organizing and institutional leadership.
Learn more about them here.
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Faith leaders, lay persons and organizers will be activating throughout July and August. Several faith leaders are committing to deliver messages of repair on July 5th, the Sunday following the administration’s America250 celebration.
August is youth month! And throughout August, young adult leaders, youth ministers and young people of faith will deliver repair-focused messages around the nation through the Faith Out Loud Coalition.
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Yes, several VOR sermons will be live streamed via independent church and institutional websites and some will be streamed via our media partners. A full list of those will be available on the Find a VOR Experience tab! Check back to see what’s happening in your city/region!
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Fill out the form here and a member of the VOR team will get back to you within 24-hours.
To access the NABJ reporter guide you must be an active member of NABJ
Get Involved
Are you a faith leader, lay person or organizer interested in joining VOR? Sign up here!
Registered participants will receive the VOR toolkit to support the creation of your sermon or speech.