The state of Virginia, one of more than 30 other states that practiced forced sterilizations, followed North Carolina’s lead and has since 2016 been awarding $25,000 to each survivor (“Virginia Votes Compensation for Victims of its Eugenic Sterilization Program” by Jaydee Hanson, Center for Genetics and Society, March 5, 2015).

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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.

June 29, 2018

In May 2018, on the anniversary of the anti-slavery rebellion of the Maroon Jose Leonardo Chirino (in Las Macanillas, Falcon State on May 10, 1795), an international meeting on reparations is convened in Caracas, Venezuela.

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.