Hundreds of movement leaders, activists, organizers, funders, and journalists gathered in Atlanta in June 2023 at Alight, Align, Arise, an invitation-only conference on reparations organized by the Decolonizing Wealth Project. As the conference’s media partner, YES! Media spoke with more than a dozen prominent organizers, activists, and leaders, among them Richard Wallace, founder and executive director of Equity and Transformation Chicago, an organization fighting for social and economic equity for Black workers in informal work and those who have been formerly incarcerated.
Wallace spoke with YES! Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar in Atlanta about how he has been inspired by recent travels to Benin and New Zealand, where Black and Indigenous communities are building their own equity-based institutions.
This video is part of Realizing Reparations, an exclusive digital series exploring the leading edges of the reparations ecosystem—and revealing a path toward healing and reconciliation.
This series was funded by a grant from Liberated Capital, a fund of the Decolonizing Wealth Project, which is led by Edgar Villanueva, of the Lumbee tribe, and works globally to disrupt the existing systems of moving and controlling capital using education and healing programs, radical reparative giving, and storytelling. Reporting and production of the series was funded by this grant, but YES! maintains full editorial control of the content published herein. Read our editorial independence policy.
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