Who We Are
About NAARC
Established in April, 2015, the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) is a group of distinguished professionals from across the country with outstanding accomplishments in the fields of law, medicine, journalism, academia, history, civil rights, and social justice advocacy. They are united in a common commitment to fight for reparatory justice, compensation and restoration of African American communities that were plundered by the historical crimes of slavery, segregation and colonialism and that continue to be victimized by the legacies of slavery and American apartheid.
Convenor of the NAARC is Dr. Ron Daniels, veteran civil and human rights activist and a distinguished professor at York College of the City University of New York. He is joined by the following members:
Professor Charles Ogletree
Honorary Member
Executive Director Emeritus, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard University,
Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Conrad Worrill
Director Emeritus, The Carruthers Center for Inner-City Studies, Northeastern University,
Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Ray Winbush
Director of the Institute for Urban Research, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland
Dr. Iva Carruthers
General Secretary, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Chicago, Illinois
Rev. JoAnn Watson
Former Detroit City Councilwoman, Detroit, Michigan
Atty. Nkechi Taifa
Criminal Justice Reform and Reparations Activist,
Washington, D.C.
Dr. Julianne Malveaux
Political Economist and President Emeritus, Bennett College for Women, Washington, D.C.
Nana Dr. Patrcia Newton
CEO, Black Psychiatrists of America, Baltimore
Maryland
Yvette Modestin
Founder and Executive Director, Encuentro Diaspora and IBW Board Member, Boston, Massachusetts
Kamm Howard
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations In America,
Chicago, Illinois
Dr. Joyce King
Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, GA.
Dr. V.P. Franklin
Editor, Journal of African American History,
New Orleans
Bill Fletcher Jr.
Labor and Social Justice Activist,
Washington, D.C.
Jasiri X
Founder/CEO 1Hood Media
Pittsburgh, PA
NAARC was formally launched in April 2015 at the National/International Reparations Summit which was held at York College of the City University of New York. The Summit attracted reparations activists and advocates from across the USA and from some 19 countries in the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
About FFRN!
The Fund for Reparations NOW! (FFRN!) was launched in 2019 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans arriving in Jamestown, Virginia, and to imagine the coming America in which reparations are a reality, and deeper racial healing is possible. The Fund is administered and financed by its Board, the nationwide white American arm of NAARC, who are committed to our collective liberation, and to supporting the vision of NAARC’s African American leadership. [If you are looking for our financial information, find it on our Community page.]
Current FFRN! Board Members
David Gardinier
Alex Freedman
Karen Hilfman
Caroline Colesworthy
Jennifer Hadlock
Peggy Dobbins
Katie McMurray
Lou Duplantier
In our own words:
Honoring The Legacy of Queen Mother Moore
NAARC is dedicated to building on the legacy and inspiration of Queen Mother Moore, one of the icons of the modern Reparations Movement. She was born Audley Moore in New Iberia, Louisiana, to Ella and St. Cry Moore on July 27, 1898. Both her parents died before she completed the fourth grade, her mother Ella Johnson dying in 1904 when Audley was six. Her grandmother, Nora Henry, had been enslaved at birth, the daughter of an African woman who was raped by her enslaver, who was a doctor. Audley Moore's grandfather was lynched, leaving her grandmother with five children with Moore's mother as the youngest. Moore became a hairdresser at the age of 15. Moore married Frank Warner and they have a son together, Thomas O. Warner.[2]
After viewing a speech by Marcus Garvey, Moore moved to Harlem, New York, and later became a leader and life member of the UNIA, founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey. She participated in Garvey's first international convention in New York City and was a stock owner in the Black Star Line. Along with becoming a leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement, Moore worked for a variety of causes for over 60 years. Her last public appearance was at the Million Man March alongside Jesse Jackson during October 1995.
Moore was the founder and president of the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women as well as the founder of the Committee for Reparations for Descendants of U.S. Slaves. She was a founding member of the Republic of New Afrika to fight for self-determination, land, and reparations. In 1964, Moore founded the Eloise Moore College of African Studies, Mt. Addis Ababa in Parksville, New York. The college was destroyed by fire in the late 1970s. For most of the 1950s and 1960s, Moore was the best-known advocate of African-American reparations. Operating out of Harlem and her organization, the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, Moore actively promoted reparations from 1950 until her death in 1996.
Queen Mother Moore