2025
May 6, 2025: New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies Public Hearing
Time: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Campus Center Building, Recital Hall, 223 Store Hill Road, Old Westbury NY, 11568
Parking: Campus Center Parking Lot
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Meeting Materials
Press Release
Public Hearing Meeting Agenda
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Presentations
Brea Baker - ROOTED: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
Dr. Calvin Schermerhorn - Black New Yorkers and a History of Dispossession, Disinheritance & Decapitalization
April 10, 2025: New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies Public Hearing and Business Meeting
Time: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location: Dreiser Community Center, 177 Dreiser Loop, 2nd Floor, Auditoriums B and C, Bronx, NY 10475
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Meeting Materials
Press Release
Public Hearing and Meeting Agenda
Reading Materials:
"From Affirmative Action to Reparations"
"No Innocence Here"
Presentation: Dr. Mark Naison, Obstacles to Black Wealth Acquisition North and South in the 20th Century: A Presentation to New York State Reparations Commission
Presentation: Professor Susan Watson-Turner, Bronx Slave Market
March 4, 2025: New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies Business Meeting and Public Hearing
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Business Meeting); 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Public Hearing)
Location: Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave., Rochester, NY 14607
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Meeting Materials
Rochester Public Meeting Press Release
Meeting Agenda
Presentation: Dr. David Hochfelder, Associate Professor & Undergraduate Director, Department of History at University of Albany, on the topic of urban renewal
Presentation: Our Local History, on enslavement, redlining, and beyond
February 15, 2025: New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies Public Hearing
Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Location: Renaissance Hotel Albany, 144 State Street, Albany, NY 12207
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Meeting Materials
Presentation - Overview of the Institution of Slavery, Lavada Nahon, New York State Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation
Meeting Agenda
2024
December 16, 2024: New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies Business Meeting and Public Hearing
Location: Rochdale Ballroom, 169-65 137th Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11434
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December 16, 2024 Agenda
November 12, 2024: New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies Public Hearing
Location: Elim Christian Fellowship Church, 70 Chalmers Avenue, Buffalo, NY
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November 12, 2024 Agenda
October 1, 2024: New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies Business Meeting
Locations:
Remington Boys & Girls Club, 1 Remington Place, New Rochelle, NY 10801
Onondaga Community College, Coulter Hall, Room 116, 4585 W. Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse, NY 13215
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Meeting Materials
October 1, 2024 Meeting Agenda
New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies Procedures for Member Videoconferencing Resolution
New York State Community Commission on Reparations Public Comment Policy
Introduction to the Commission Presentation Slides
August 27, 2024: New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies Public Meeting
Location: Empire State Plaza, Meeting Room 6, North Concourse, Albany, NY 12227
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Meeting Materials
August 27, 2024 Meeting Agenda
Draft Procedures on Member Videoconferencing
Draft Resolution on Videoconferencing
Commission Policy on Public Comment
July 30, 2024: New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies Remedies Public Meeting
Location: New York State Capitol, Blue Room, Second Floor, Albany, NY
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