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An archive in the TRC tradition

Testimony. History.
Pathways out.

An archive in the Truth & Reconciliation tradition — testimony, sourced history, and civil-rights pathways.

A documentary platform for the persistence of racial injustice and the institutions resisting it. Curated testimony, sourced history, and verified civil-rights pathways — built in the shape of South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation Commission, the ACLU, and the Equal Justice Initiative.

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What this is for
  • ·People who lived through housing redlining, employment discrimination, police misconduct, healthcare neglect — and need a record.
  • ·Researchers, organizers, and journalists looking for sourced material with citations intact.
  • ·Anyone who wants to know who to call, what to file, and where the clock is running.

From the archive

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Voting Access US — Midwest · 2024

Composite scenario: the postcard that wasn't returned

An illustration of how 'use it or lose it' voter-roll maintenance operates, drawn from the Brennan Center's documentation of post-Shelby purge procedures.

Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from Brennan Center documentation

Employment & Pay US — West · 2024

Composite scenario: the resume-screening algorithm

An illustration of how an automated hiring system can entrench the same callback gap documented in human-screening audit studies.

Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from EEOC algorithmic-bias guidance

Healthcare US — South · 2024

Composite scenario: pain not heard in the delivery room

An illustration of how dismissal of Black patients' pain operates, drawn from CDC pregnancy-mortality data and Hoffman et al.'s 2016 study on racial bias in pain assessment.

Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from CDC data + Hoffman et al. 2016

Employment & Pay US — Northeast · 2024

Composite scenario: the resume that didn't get a callback

An illustration of how name-based hiring discrimination operates, drawn from the Bertrand & Mullainathan resume audit study and its twenty-year replication record.

Composite scenario — platform staff, drawn from Bertrand & Mullainathan and Quillian et al.

A sourced timeline

Receipts, in order.

Full timeline →
  1. 2023
    Book bans 2021–2024: the catalog of removed titles

    PEN America's ``Banned in the USA`` tracker recorded 10,046 instances of book bans in US public schools across the 2022–2023 and 2023–2024 academic years, affecting 4,231 unique titles. The American Library Association's …

    Source: PEN America, ``Banned in the USA: Beyond the Shelves`` (2024). American Library Association, ``State of America's Libraries 2024``.

  2. 2023
    Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ends race-conscious admissions

    In ``Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard`` and ``Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina`` (2023), the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 (6–2 in the Harvard case, Justice Jackson recused) that …

    Source: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 600 US 181 (2023). Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, 600 US 181 (2023). US Supreme Court.

  3. 2022
    Stop W.O.K.E. Act and the AP African American Studies fight

    Florida's Individual Freedom Act of 2022 ('Stop W.O.K.E. Act') restricted K-12 and public-university instruction on race and racism by prohibiting teaching that an individual 'must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of …

    Source: Florida H.B. 7 (2022). PEN America, ``America's Censored Classrooms 2024``. See Eddie S. Glaude Jr., ``Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own`` (Crown, 2020).

  4. 2022
    The racial wealth gap, measured in the Federal Reserve survey

    The Federal Reserve's 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances measured median white family net worth at $284,310 and median Black family net worth at $44,890. The white-to-Black wealth ratio was 6.3 to 1 …

    Source: Federal Reserve, ``Survey of Consumer Finances`` (2022). William A. Darity Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen, ``From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century`` (UNC Press, 2020). Mehrsa Baradaran, ``The Color of Money`` (Harvard, 2017).

  5. 2021
    Black maternal mortality: the CDC's persistent finding

    The CDC's Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System has tracked pregnancy-related deaths since 1986. The 2024 update (covering 2017–2019) found that Black women in the United States die of pregnancy-related causes at 2.9 times …

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System, 2017–2019 data. Linda Villarosa, ``Under the Skin`` (Doubleday, 2022).

Active organizing

National African-American Reparations Commission / N'COBRA

Pass H.R. 40 — Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals

H.R. 40 would establish a federal commission to study the history and lasting effects of slavery and racial discrimination in the United States, and to recommend reparation proposals. First introduced …

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Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights / NAACP

Support qualified-immunity reform (George Floyd Justice in Policing Act)

The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act would, among other provisions, limit federal qualified immunity for police, create a national use-of-force database, restrict no-knock warrants in federal drug cases, and …

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WE ACT for Environmental Justice / Climate Justice Alliance

Pass the Environmental Justice for All Act

The Environmental Justice for All Act would codify Title VI disparate-impact review of environmental permits, require cumulative-impact assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act, and create a Federal Energy Transition …

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