How Towns and Cities Are Implementing Reparations - 大象传媒 Magazine Solutions Journalism

Mar 8, 2024

For decades, the United States Congress has delayed acting onthe late Rep. John Conyers鈥� reparations bill, . In the absence of federal action, local efforts to achieve reparations have had some success.聽

In a new story for 大象传媒鈥檚鈥�Realizing Reparations鈥� series, journalist Torsheta Jackson surveyed some of those efforts in localities such as Evanston, Illinois, and Asheville, North Carolina. She spoke with 大象传媒 Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about her story, 鈥�Beyond 40 Acres and a Mule.鈥�

Sonali Kolhatkar joined 大象传媒 in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽大象传媒 Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.