On Juneteenth in 2023, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, a Newark-based advocacy group, launched the New Jersey Reparations Council to determine how to compensate Black people impacted by the legacy of slavery in the Garden State. The council’s goal was to put out a report on Juneteenth in 2025 outlining how those reparations would work.
Two years later, that goal has been met with the long-awaited report, “For Such a Time as This: The Nowness of Reparations for Black People in New Jersey,” which will be released to the public at 7 p.m. June 19 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.