The NCBL Reparations Committee provided oversight for the Reparations Research Project. Its members include Shirley Traylor, Nkechi Taifa, Deborah A. Jackson and Adjoa A. Aiyetoro.
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ABOUT REPARATIONS
NCBL began its official engagement with the reparations movement in 1987 when it included a workshop on reparations at its annual conference in Boston, Massachusetts, that had the theme of what the Constitution would have contained if it were focused on the interests of Africans and their descendants.
NCBL’s involvement deepened after the conference when it responded to the call issued by the late Imari Obadele, then President of the Republic of New Afrika, at the request of the late Dorothy Benton Lewis, a leader in the reparations movement, to create a mass-based organization that had as its primary focus obtaining reparations for African descendants in the United States. This led to the birth of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) in 1988.
NCBL has and continues to have a significant presence in N’COBRA with its members serving in leadership positions at its founding, in the Legal Strategies Commission, and on N’COBRA’s Elder Advisory Council. NCBL also created a Reparations Committee that, among other things, organizes workshops at NCBL conferences and other organizations’ conferences.