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Collaborations
Vox Media and Canopy have partnered to produce and release a major podcast series, video segment, and newsletter series to tackle the issue of reparative justice. Through original reporting and first-person interviews, the series will educate the American public, policymakers, and civil society on truth and reparative justice processes around the world and explore how this global practice can inform our own nation’s reckoning with its history of oppression.
In partnership with Vox Media, Canopy supported the production and release of a major four-part podcast series on reparations, which was released in September 2022.
Vox Landing Page: Reparations Could Heal America
Podcast Episode 1: 40 Acres - The Original Promise
Episode 1 Accompanying Reporting: Reviving the case for reparations
Podcast Episode 2: $14 trillion and no mules
Episode 2 Accompanying Reporting: The cost of reparations
Podcast Episode 3: The old Jim Crow
Episode 3 Accompanying Reporting: The Marxist scholar who thinks reparations are “a waste of time”
Podcast Episode 4: Reaching reconciliation
Episode 4 Accompanying Reporting: The hope — and risk — of local reparations.
Canopy also has partnered with reparations expert Nkechi Taifa to support in the production of her inaugural podcast series Human Rights and Justice. This series explores a range of human rights and restorative justice issues domestically and globally to illuminate how reparations paid to victims can help end systemic racism and avoid repeated harm to communities of color.
Episode 1: Movement Leaders Nkechi Taifa and Kamm Howard Talk Reparations
Episode 2: Mourn or Scorn: The Black World and Queen Elizabeth’s Death
Episode 3: The Woman King, the Clotilda, and Complexities
Episode 4: Taifa Broadcasts Live from Congressional Black Caucus Conference
Episode 5: Julia Wright on Human Rights
Episode 6: AfricaTown: Past, Present & Future
Prosperity Now and Canopy have partnered to launch a U.S.-Global Truth and Repair Network, which will bring together global leaders who have shaped and led truth and repair efforts abroad and their U.S. counterparts to drive learning and collaboration through facilitated peer-to-peer exchange and case studies.
Support for these collaborations was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Canopy Collective through our fiscal sponsor, Multiplier. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.