Advocacy & Action Resources
Learn more about groups combating current-day slavery, working for racial repair through legislation, and working to eliminate the disparities between whites & communities of color.
Current-day anti-slavery/human trafficking campaigns
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
International Justice Mission
Free the Slaves
Polaris Project
ChildVoice International
RugMark
American Anti-Slavery Group (iAbolish.org)
LEGISLATIVE EFFORTS
Apology resolution – US House of Representatives
- Press release from sponsoring member Stephen Cohen, Tennesse’s 9th district
- Full text of the resolution
US Senate slavery apology proposal:
- Information about possible resolution from senators Sam Brownback and Tom Harkin
National Reparations commission
- H.R. 40, “The Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act”: Summary statement from sponsoring member John Conyers, Michigan’s 9th district
- Full text of the bill
Truth & reconciliation commissions
- Global models: US Institute of Peace list of all T&R Commissions
- Local models: First T&R in the United States: Greensboro, NC
LEGACY OF RACISM: Disparities between communities of color and white communities in the US
Economic disparities:
- Project on Inequality and the Common Good
- United for a Fair Economy
- Working Group on Extreme Inequality
Health disparities:
- Families USA Minority Health
- Black Women’s Health Imperative
- National Center for Health Statistics and Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities
- Black Church responses: The Balm in Gilead, Inc.
- National Institutes of Health – National Center on Minority Health & Health Disparities
- Kaiser Family Foundation – Minority Health & Racial Disparities
Criminal justice:
- Sentencing Project: Racial Disparities
- Death Penalty Information Center
- Amnesty International
- Children’s Defense Fund: Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign
Groups supporting communities of color
Groups doing anti-racism work
