• Set up an IRA (individual reparations account), as an individual or group (Dyson, Tears You Cannot Stop). 

• Get up to speed on the conversation…find resources on the internet and on social media

• Read or follow black leaders and academics. See list below for further reading. Better yet, buy books by black authors for yourself, for your local library, for the schools in your area. Or set up a go fund me page to support such purchases.

• “Hire black people at your office and pay them slightly better than you would ordinarily pay them.”(Dyson, Tears You Cannot Stop)

• “Pay the black person who cuts your grass double what you might ordinarily pay” (Dyson, Tears You Cannot Stop)

• “Give a black student scholarship help.” (Dyson, Tears You Cannot Stop)

• “Be creative in transferring a bit of your resources.” (Dyson, Tears You Cannot Stop)

• Contribute to a community reparations fund, such as [insert patreone link?]

• When using the resources of black authors for classes, credit their material and purchase, don’t just photocopy, their books.

• Shop in neighborhoods and stores that would benefit from a broader base of support.

• Invest in black-lead businesses and development projects, like Sherman Phoenix.

• Make a reparations plan for 2020. What is your allotment per month? Where can you stretch yourself a bit further – be creative. Leslie Mac recommends 50 percent giving directly to people, 50 percent giving to organizations. (Leslie Mac video, Questions for Allies in the New Year – below)

• Encourage others to give. Use email, group chats – be creative. (Leslie Mac video, Questions for Allies in the New Year – below)

• Determine how your giving criteria. What’s your criteria? (Leslie Mac video, Questions for Allies in the New Year)

• Develop an emergency request plan. Get your friends to join with you in creating an emergency needs pool of funds. (Leslie Mac video, Questions for Allies in the New Year)

• Ask your faith community to incorporate reparations payments into its budget, e.g., contribute to a community reparations fund. See Seattle and Tulsa UU case studies.

• “Hire black people at your office and pay them slightly better than you would ordinarily pay them.”(Dyson, Tears You Cannot Stop)

• “Urge your church or civic institution to commit a 10th of its resources to educating black youth – secular tithe – for summer camp, sports teams, instruments, tutors.” (Dyson, Tears You Cannot Stop)

• “Treat black people to a few of the signs of appreciation you offer to military veterans. E.g., at football games, a civil rights veterans night honoring Andrew Young, Diane Nash, Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, Eleanor Holmes Norton” (Dyson, Tears You Cannot Stop)

• Develop an emergency request plan. (Leslie Mac video, Questions for Allies in the New Year– See Materials Page)

• “Pay for the textbooks of 10 black college students each year.” (Dyson, Tears You Cannot Stop)

• Put in place a plan for bequests that ensures a percentage goes toward reparations initiatives or the faith community’s reparations account

• Support HR bill 40. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/40/text

o See Senator Cory Booker’s release on this bill:
https://www.booker.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=901
o Register on congress.gov to get email alerts related to this bill.
o View HR 40 hearing on Capitol Hill:

o https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/politics/slavery-reparations-
hearing.html?module=inline

o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_mfXUndW80

• Preorder the book From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, by William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen, due out April 20, 2020.

• Let your congressional representatives know that you care about this issue.

• Sign and/or start petitions on this issue.