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” – Yes Magazine
Starting with community activism in St. Louis following the shooting of 18 year old Michael Brown JR. the protests that followed and the anger it generated throughout the community, we have engaged in stories that galvanize thoughtful, empathetic and educated allies for Black and communities of color. Over the years, the Truth Telling Project’s Activism program has hosted seminars, commissions and hearings, encouraging communites nationwide to listen, participate and bear witness to black and communities of color. Our programs honor and provide financial support to the ongoing work of activists committed to change across the country.
Education Program
I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is … to tell the truth.
Howard Zinn
We are committed to transformative and participatory education in our schools, communities, organizations, and within our Network. We educate ourselves in the most current thinking and actions about decolonialism, anti-racism, queer affirmative and state-sanctioned violence. We provide engaged, radical, and participatory learning opportunities for our Networks. We nurture healing within communities that experience police violence with the hope for broader reconciliation.
Policy Program
Our Policy Program includes organizing for 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 and the demand for voting rights and free and fair elections.
We advocate for systemic change by identifying public policy opportunities to improve the experiences of marginalized communities at the national and grassroots level.
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.
Repair Program
Reparations is the midpoint between Truth and Reconciliation
We uplift faith-based, healing and ethically centered frameworks that demand accountability to the history and current world created by slavery. We aim to create a culture of reparations that emerges from spiritual practice, transformative education and action.