Voices of Repair is a three-part national intervention that activates the power of the Black Church and the Black press to strategically counter the Right’s narrative strategy. 

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

THE CAMPAIGN

• A National Sermon & Speaker Series

Throughout July and August, faith leaders, lay persons and organizers will tell the truth of who we are, and have always been, as the spine of the American story. We are boldly combatting the hate-fueled version of Christianity undergirding this administration's rhetoric to uplift what our faiths teach us about repair across traditions: To love one’s neighbor, to build beloved community, to pursue justice for the oppressed and to care for the least among us. 

Through Voices of Repair, these powerful messages of love, justice and repair will weaken the right’s narrative stronghold, creating more space for our communities to call out the warped, hateful theology being used to erase millions of people of this nation’s past,present and future. 

The sermons and speeches will address the primary theological objections Christian Nationalists are levying against the reparations movement, issuing a clear call for people of faith to counter those narratives through the storytelling we do in and outside of our faith communities.

• Collaborations with Black and Progressive Media

Black faith institutions and Black media in this nation are intrinsically linked. Just like the Black Church, Black media companies have been both distribution channels for information and resources, and trusted spaces where love and a commitment to Black liberation are the engines driving their work. For that reason, Voices of Repair will feature editorial collaborations with Black press and allied media organizations, highlighting stories about how Black people of faith around this nation are fighting against the warped Christian doctrine being used to ensure America’s next 250 don’t include us. 

• Flanking from The National Association of Black Journalists

Black journalists have always played an integral role in documenting political and cultural change in this nation, modeling what it truly looks like to use journalism as a tool to hold those in power to account for the harm they’ve caused, and the repair that’s required. That history is why Black journalists and Black media organizations are under attack, so understanding this, the National Association of Black Journalists has joined Voices of Repair to provide Black journalists and media makers the tools and information on how to use reparative reporting frameworks in their coverage of this moment, including Freedom250 and the upcoming midterm elections. 

Together, these three pillars form a unified cultural and narrative campaign that embeds reparations not as a policy abstraction, but as a moral imperative, a sacred obligation, and a defining question of what America will become.