why now?

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 THREAT

Christian Nationalist organizations are actively using the lead-up to America’s 250th birthday to advance narratives that are anti-Black, anti-immigrant, and hostile to religious pluralism.

Their strategy is sophisticated: they wield theological language, patriotic symbolism, and cultural interventions to draw conservative-moderate people of faith, including Black and Brown Christians, into their base. If they can get Black and Brown people to focus on Christianity’s role in America’s past and its future, the easier it will be to erase them from history and the future.


This is not a hypothetical threat. As of 2025:

  • More than 60% of Americans identify as Christian

  • Approximately 25% of Black and Brown Christians identify as politically conservative, a segment that votes Democratic but holds conservative views on many social issues. In Black and Brown communities, we often refer to this as the morally conservative base.

  • Progressive movements have consistently failed to organize this segment at scale, leaving them vulnerable to right-wing narrative capture.


Faith will be a main character in America’s 250th anniversary story. The question is whether the faith voices in that story will be voices of repair, justice, and love, or if they will be megaphones for exclusion and nationalism.

The Voices of Repair campaign is built to answer that question.