In-Store: Rethinking Reparations w/ Makini Chisolm-Straker

Wed Feb 19 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm UTC-05:00

Books Are Magic Smith | Brooklyn

Books Are Magic
Publisher/HostBooks Are Magic
In-Store: Rethinking Reparations w\/ Makini Chisolm-Straker
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Join us for a community workshop centered on policy-based repair and reparations strategies, led by expert Makini Chisolm-Straker
About this Event

Event guidelines:

  • All attendees are encouraged to wear face masks at all times.
  • RSVP is highly encouraged but not required.
  • Additional copies of the featured books will be available for purchase in-store.
  • As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out.

If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact [email protected].


This year, we encourage our community to learn together, support each other, and take actionable steps promoting racial equity, wellbeing, and repair.

Join us for Makini Chisolm-Staker's workshop, "Rethinking Reparations: Envisioning Holistic Repair," a threefold-purposed workshop:

1. to historically ground reparations workers/freedom warriors in the need for policy-based reparations;

2. to challenge the possibility of meaningful policy-based repair in a nation built on stolen land; and,

3. to imagine methods of repair and wellbeing generation outside of the settler-colonial, capitalist construct.

The workshop challenges reparations strategy and strengthens participants' conceptualization of wellbeing and relationship repair.

The books featured in Makini's discussion will be available for purchase in-store.


Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH is a policy-based reparations specialist, with a background in public health and domestic policy. A former White House Fellow and visiting professor of history at Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Dr. Chisolm-Straker’s work focuses on reparations to Black and Indigenous people in what is now the United States. By centering the populations that are the foundation of the nation's wealth, Dr. Chisolm-Straker proposes structural changes to value and bring us toward communal abundance.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Books Are Magic Smith, 225 Smith St., Brooklyn, United States

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