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Advancing a Future that Centers Climate Reparations
NAACP will continue to advocate domestically and globally for climate reparations, recovery, and resources that reflects a recognition of the decades of extraction and disinvestment that created the climate crisis due to wealthy fossil fuel company decisions.
Resolution for The Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposal for African Americans
NAACP reaffirms its previous resolutions supporting reparations, and urges Congress to pass the Congressional Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act.
In Support of Federal Oversight in Response to Actions that Restrict and Erode Reparative Policies
The NAACP reaffirms past support for a Reparations policy expressed in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2016, 2019, and 2022
NAACP Strongly Supports Reparations
NAACP History of Reparations Resolutions
NAACP Recommends Reparations Policies for Black American Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States
Be it finally resolved the NAACP demands the 117th U.S. Congress and President Joe Biden establish a commission to study and recommend a comprehensive program of compensatory reparations policies.
Reparations
The NAACP reaffirms and stands in favor of financial reparations to African Americans and those of African Descent in the United States that are descendants of the slavery and the Jim Crow Era.
Calling for Reparative Racial Justice Measures in an Effort for Marijuana Legalization
The NAACP units will advocate that marijuana legalization legislation and decriminalization must include reparative measures for communities by ensuring equal access to business licenses in the marijuana industry, and investing in communities that have been harmed by the War on Drugs.
Reparations for Unpaid Labor Rendered by Enslaved Persons of African Descent
The NAACP reaffirms its previous position on reparations, established in 1991, as embodied in H.R. 40 by representative John Conyers that demands the United States Government take immediate action to commence hearings and to establish a congressional commission to examine the issue of reparations for descendants of enslaved persons of African descent.
The United States Government to Consider Reparations to African Americans
The NAACP supports the bill by Congressman John Conyers of the State of Michigan to create a Congressional Commission to make reparation proposals to direct descendants of African slaves.
Support of Reparations Research, Policy Development, Programs and Litigation
The Convention re-affirm the previous policy of the NAACP adopted in 1997 on Reparations H.R. 40 for African Americans.
Reaffirming Reparations H.R. 40
NAACP officers and members be encouraged to work with and join groups dedicated to realizing reparations for African Americans such as the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA) which is based in Washington, DC, with chapters throughout North America, the Caribbean and West Africa (including participating in activities such as circulating petitions in support of H.R. 40; participating in lobbying days on Capitol Hill; in appeals to the United Nations; and in fundraising efforts, etc.), and shall be granted all voting rights in branch matters except those as prescribed in branch elections, Article V.