Black Voters Matter Fund, a national voting rights organization, launched a first-of-its-kind Black Reparations Fund, to support local initiatives to study reparation efforts that will compensate and invest in Black Americans for the ongoing harms of slavery.
Black Voters Matter Group Gathers In Selma For March To Montgomery
SELMA, ALABAMA - MARCH 09: I'munique Liggens, 18, chants during the Black Voters Matter's 57th Selma to Montgomery March on March 09, 2022 in Selma, Alabama. People gathered alongside organizations including Black Voters Matter, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and the Transformative Justice Network to march the 11-mile original route that the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis and other civil rights leaders marched on March 7, 1965.
“We certainly believe that sometimes you move faster at the local level on issues,” Cliff Albright, the co-founder of Black Voters Matter, told Yahoo News. The grant initiative was launched on June 28 and plans to award over $150,000 to Asheville, N.C., and Boston, cities that have taken steps toward addressing the issue.
“We’re focusing on places that have already made some advances and may in fact already have a policy,” Albright said. “But are now at this critical middle stage of, OK, once you have a policy, and once you've got a commitment to establish a task force, there’s the resource issue.
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