A National Intervention
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.
By deploying nuanced stories through sermons, speeches, published editorial content, messaging, and reporting guides, the campaign will elevate important truths about reparations and raise the question of what role repair must play in America's next chapter, all while centering repair as the antidote to the hatred standing between us and the future we deserve.
The Campaign
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.
A National Sermon & Speaker Series
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.