Who We Are

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 was originally a project of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), and continues to work in solidarity with NAARC and other Black leaders to fund reparatory justice projects that collectively benefit African American communities. FFRN! is currently a fiscally sponsored project of Possibility Labs, and is administered by the Board Members below who are committed to the collective liberation of us all, through the making of reparations for African Americans. 

Current FFRN! Board Members

Alyssa Rocco

Caroline Colesworthy

David Gardinier

Jennifer Hadlock

Karen Hilfman

In our own words:

Honoring The Legacy of Queen Mother Moore

FFRN! 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.