Reparations for Black Americans are a major topic of discussion in America today. Black Americans are the descendants of enslaved people brought to America through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. They were enslaved for 400 years, contributing to the construction of this free world that we now call America, but at a tremendous cost that involved their lives, the lives of their loved ones, and the lives of the people we are today.
The National Reparation Convention 2023 will be a conference organized by a group of people that recognize themselves as Afrodescendants.
The term, Afrodescendant, refers to descendants of peoples who:
- were forcibly dispossessed of their homeland, Africa;
- were transported to the Americas and Slavery Diaspora for the purpose of enslavement;
- were subjected to slavery;
- were subjected to forced mixed breeding and rape;
- have experienced, through force, the loss of mother tongue, culture, and religion;
- and/or have experienced racial discrimination due to lost ties or partially lost ties from their original identity.
*Afrodescendants are experiencing Ethnogenesis, the re-establishment of the mind or the “Resurrection” of a people who have lost the identity of ‘Self’ due to 400 years of “Slavery.”
The organizers of the coalition are made of grassroots organizations, scholars, legislators, leaders and activists in the reparations movement. By organizing together, their goals are to:
Organize the Organizations throughout the Americas and Slavery Diaspora into one Unified National Reparations Movement.
Establish a foundation upon which we can proceed together with one voice in our efforts towards self-determination, reparations, restoration, reconciliation, repatriation and repair.
Protection and Promotion of our most basic Human Rights which were severed as a result of plantation slavery: loss of our original identity, language, culture, and religion.
Advance recognition of our self-chosen name, Afrodescendants, as Our Nationality and join onto the Afrodescendant Nation. Reparations can be paid from one nation to another.
Afrodescendants to become recognized as a sovereign state in the UN General Assembly
On Saturday, October 7 and Sunday, October 8, the National Reparations Conference will be held at Georgia State University (GSU) at:
55 Gilmer St SE, Atlanta, GA 30303
Student Center East Auditorium
This year keynote speakers will be:
Silis Muhammad CEO Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam. Mr. Muhammad nurtures spiritual life within the Afrodescendant people 
Malik Shabazz, Esq CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY National Civil Rights/ Plaintiffs Trial Attorney at Black Lawyers for Justice, Washington, DC. 
Justin Hansford, Esq. LAW PROFESSOR Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, Law Professor at Howard University 
Professor James Small SCHOLAR ACTIVIST CEO of Sanaa Lodge Enterprise, Ghana, Ltd., CEO & President, African-American Management Company, Ghana, Ltd.
Other guest panelist include:
Schedule: Day 1
| 11:00 am
Registration
Student Center East Auditorium Lobby: Student admission is free with student ID. General admission tickets: $20 per day. Weekend rate for both days $35.00
| 12:00 pm
Welcome, Keynote Address, Speaker Panel
Student Center East Speakers Auditorium
| 4:00 PM
Break
GSU Cafes and Eateries: The Courtyard, Student Center East, First Floor: Panda Express; Courtyard Cafe;
First Floor Bookstore Building: Chick-fil-A
| 5:00 PM
Working Group Sessions
Student Center East, upper floor classrooms 216, 217, 218
| 7:30 PM
Town Hall
Student Center East Speakers Auditorium
Schedule: Day 2
| 11:00 am
Registration
Student Center East Auditorium Lobby: Student admission is free with student ID. General admission tickets: $20 per day. Weekend rate for both days $35.00
| 12:00 pm
Welcome, Keynote Address, Speaker Panel
Student Center East Speakers Auditorium
| 3:00 PM
Break
GSU Cafes and Eateries: The Courtyard, Student Center East, First Floor: Panda Express; Courtyard Cafe;
| 4:00 PM
Closing Address, Call to Action
Student Center East Speakers Auditorium
To learn more about the conference and register please visit: National Reparations Conference
