Our Programs
Activism Program
“Research indicates that the country is not likely to escape its historic cycles of violence and racial oppression without addressing this painful and troubled history.”
In response to the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri, and the ensuing protests and anger generated throughout the community, The Truth Telling Project (TTP) began using the power of stories to connect with and galvanize thoughtful, empathetic, educated allies for Black and Brown communities. Over the years, our Activism program has also hosted seminars, commissions, and hearings, encouraging communities nationwide to listen, bear witness to, and take supportive action in response to truth telling about injustice. Our programs honor and provide financial support to the ongoing work of activists committed to change across the country.
Education Program
“Research “I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is… to tell the truth.”
— Howard Zinn
The Truth Telling Project is committed to transformative education in our schools, communities, organizations, and other networks. Educating ourselves in the most current thinking and action to do with decolonialism, anti-racist and queer affirmative work, and state-sanctioned violence, we provide engaged, radical, and participatory learning opportunities for our networks. We also nurture healing within communities that experience police violence with the hope for broader reconciliation.
Policy Program
Our Policy Program includes organizing support for HR40: Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, the call for abolishing white supremacy, defunding the police, ending police brutality, removing and replacing racist monuments, and the demand for voting rights and free and fair elections.
We advocate for systemic change by identifying public policy opportunities to improve the conditions of marginalized communities at the local-to-national, grassroots levels. We are committed to defunding police as a strategy of abolishing the white supremacist systems that lead to police brutality and violence against BIPOC communities.
Reparations Program
“Reparations is a spiritual practice. Reparations is the midpoint between truth and reconciliation.”
–TTP Co-Founders Dr. David Ragland and Dr. Melinda Salazar
We uplift faith-based and ethically centered frameworks that demand accountability due to the history and current world created by slavery. We set out to create a culture of reparations that emerges from spiritual practice, transformative education, and action.