Entitled For Such a Time as This: The Nowness of Reparations for Black People in New Jersey, the report charts a path forward after generations of enslavement, Jim Crow apartheid, and ongoing discrimination, which have resulted in the state’s staggering $643,000 Black-white racial wealth gap.
The 244-page blueprint is the result of two years of intensive study by the NJRC, launched in 2023 by the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ).