After the reckoning:
Where we go from here.
Who we are
The Center for Reparations Finance and Practice is an independent, transnational hub focused on translating reparations principles into concrete financial architecture, governance models, and accountability tools.
The scholarship documenting racialized harm is strong, growing, and increasingly granular. Across the globe—from the Americas to the Caribbean, Africa to the Pacific—we are seeing how legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and institutionalized racism continue to shape Black communities. What has not kept pace with that scholarship is the infrastructure to act on it.
The Center produces the theory, develops the financial models, and builds the governance architecture that reparative practice requires.
The 4 Dimensions of Repair
Repair is enacted through four dimensions. Each is necessary, and none is sufficient alone.
Recognition
The ongoing discipline of investing with memory: recalling, in order to determine how we got here, and where we should go.
Return
What was extracted — labor, care, expertise, knowledge, and the generational wealth each would have produced — must come back to the hands of those who contributed it. It is not charity. It is not generosity. It is the settling of accounts.
Restructure
The systems that enabled extraction still operate as designed. Restructuring dismantles the architecture of harm and builds an architecture of repair, so that what was done can never be done again.
Restoration
The harm is not ultimately financial. It is spiritual. It is relational. It is what we have done to each other. The community that needs healing is all of us. Until the people who were harmed are satisfied, the work is not done.
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