Two years after the New Jersey Reparations Council launched, with the intention of putting forward a report on Juneteenth 2025, the report, “For Such a Time as This: The Nowness of Reparations for Black People in New Jersey,” was released to the public.
The council, consisting of nine committees addressing various aspects of the brutal and damaging institution of slavery in New Jersey, produced the report after holding two- to three-hour virtual sessions over the past two years to discuss their findings and hear public comments.