Attend a virtual screening of The Color Tax: Origins of the Modern-Day Racial Wealth Gap, Episode 3 of the five-part documentary series, Shame of Chicago hosted by the African American Leadership and Policy Institute. CRS Policy and Organizing Associate LaCreshia Birts will participate in the post-screening panel. The Color Tax tells the story of how a system of predatory home contract sales during the 1950s and 1960s plundered enormous sums of wealth from black families seeking the American dream of homeownership.

Reparations was added as part of the Just Economy and Community Development platform by a vote of the membership in October 2020 and was launched in 2022 at our Martin Luther King Jr. Faith in Action Assembly. Join us in the fight to correct historic economic injustices! Sign our 2022 Reparations Pledge! By signing this pledge, you will be taking part in statewide efforts to learn, organize, and advocate for reparations.