The African and African Descendants Caucus successfully lobbies for reparations and to have the Maafa (African Holocaust, Holocaust of Enslavement, or Black Holocaust) included in the final declaration document at the 2001 United Nations World Conference against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa.

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August 9, 2018

The Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church (USA), United Methodist Church (UMC), United Church of Christ (UCC), and Unitarian Universalists (UU) pass resolutions or create commissions that call for a study of the history of slavery, the on-going harms and benefits of that history, and the possibility of reparations.

September 7, 2018

At Union Theological Seminary, students shut down an administrative wing until allowed to speak to the board of directors in support of the Black Manifesto. On May 15, 1969, the board resolves to invest $500,000 of endowment monies in Black enterprises in neighboring Harlem, to try to raise $1 million to finance the Seminary’s involvement in community projects, and to ask each board member to contribute to a special fund.

September 7, 2018

James Forman, director of international affairs for Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), introduces the Black Manifesto at the meeting, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, of the National Black Economic Development Conference (NBEDC). NBEDC endorses the Manifesto.