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Linnentown and Athens​ In the news

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• ARA featured by UGA Grady News Source, 9 January 2024

• Board of Regents block Linnentown Mosaic, Athens Politics Nerd, August 2022

• University System Tries to Block Proposed Linnentown Mosaic, Flagpole, August 2022

• Athens Reparation Action premiers Alex Benoit's Linnentown documentary, Athens Banner Herald, August 2022

• Linnentown Storymap and Virtual Walking Tour, UGA Geography Department, May 2022

• Restorative Housing: healing harm from redlining and urban renewal, Shelterforce, May 2022

• More cities seek to redress widespread 20th-century destruction of Black neighborhoods, Washington Post, February 2022

• Linnentown Project Seeks $5 million in reparations, Red and Black, April 2022

• Georgia destroyed a Black neighborhood. Now former residents want justice, NBC News, December 2021

• Linnentown “Walk of Recognition” moving forward without UGA participation, Athens Politics Nerd,  October 2021

• 'We want our land back': Linnentown Project pushes for UGA to return neighborhood, Athens Banner-Herald, August 2021

• A look at the first official act of reparations in Georgia, Facing South, June 2021

• Inside the Winning Fight for Reparations, Intercept, April 2021

• 'This is the beginning': Athens-Clarke County commission passes Linnentown resolution, Athens Banner Herald, February 2021

• The Story of Linnentown: Why Athens residents are speaking out decades after the removal, The Red & Black, December 2020

• Linnentown: Just one of many black communities erased by Urban Renewal, Athens Banner-Herald, February 2020

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Multimedia

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• Linnentown: Urban Renewal, White Supremacy, and the University of Georgia, Documentary by Alex Benoit, May 2022

• Linnentown: A Black Community Erased, Podcast by Meghan Tschanz and Hattie Thomas Whitehead, April 2022

• Redress for Linnentown: photos and statistics, the Linnentown Project, May 2021

• To White Folks (4 Linnentown Episodes), Podcast by Chase Brantley and Joey Carter, April 2021

• Linnentown,  Documentary by Athens Banner-Herald, February 2020

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National Movement for Reparations 

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• African American Redress Network (AARN), coalition for research and advocacy on reparations

• Reparations4Slavery, Comprehensive resource for white folks wanting to make reparations.

• Coming to the Table project on reparations through truth-telling and  racial healing

• Reparations Now Toolkit, Movement for Black Lives

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City and state governments that are making reparations 

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• Asheville, NC

• Austin, TX

• California Reparations Task Force 

• Carroboro, NC

• Denver, CO (homeownership support)

• Detroit, MI

• Evanston, IL

• Kansas City, MO

• Providence, RI

• St Paul, MN

• San Francisco

• Stockton, CA

• Tullahassee, OK

• Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity coalition of 11 cities

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Churches who are making reparations in the USA

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• US Jesuits promised to raise $100mn for reparations; descendants say it's not happening fast enough

• First Church, in partnership with First Parish Unitarian Universalist, Cambridge MA, Exploring Reparations (process) and their creation of a Reparations Fund

• Memorial Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Memorial Justice and Reparations Fund

• Amid its own racist history, United Methodist Church unites against racism

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Resources on related Racial Justice Issues

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Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement (AADM), Athens GA

Athens Immigrant Rights Coalition

Police Brutality Center (national resource)