Side event: Measuring Harm, Advancing Reparations: The Black Audit of Racial Justice and AARN’s Harm Reports
Date, time and time zone of side event: Friday, April 17, 9:00 AM
Sponsoring organization(s) or entity/ies: Howard University’s Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center (TMCRC) and the African American Redress Network (Columbia University and the TMCRC)
Language(s) in which the side event will be held: English
Description of the side event:This side event explores how data‑driven research and community‑informed documentation advance reparatory justice for people of African descent. Howard University Movement Lawyering students present the Black Audit, while the African American Redress Network discusses Harm Reports. These methods of rigorous inquiry document historical and ongoing racial harms through legal analysis, and ethnographic, community‑based recordkeeping. The application of these frameworks will touch upon a case involving land disposition affecting residents of Lakeland, Maryland. Together, the event demonstrates how documentation—akin to museum practices of preservation and interpretation—strengthens accountability and supports claims for restitution and reparation.
Location of the side event : Room III, building A, Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Name and email address of the lead organizer Charkera Ervin,
[email protected] (permission to publish granted)
