Coalition For A Just & Equitable California

California's leading state-wide grassroots organization born to achieve Lineage-based CA Reparations.

[Coalition For A Just & Equitable California @cjecofficial]

OAKLAND! Repararations Education and Development (READ) Roots is coming to YOU!

Join us Saturday June 20th to start your family tree, explore your lineage, and learn more about your family history and how it connects to your health and our fight for Reparations.

If you think you may be a descendant of people enslaved in the United States—or simply want to learn more about your lineage, health and Reparations—we want to meet you.

📍 Oakland 📅 Saturday June 20th, 1:00PM - 4:30PM

🔗 Sign up 👇🏿
https://t.co/kuhMTNt4hb

#READRoots #Oakland #Genealogy #Reparations @cjecofficial @CABWHP #Juneteenth @ARCCBayArea

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BIG NEWS! This summer, Reparations Education and Development (READ) Roots workshops are EXPANDING to New York and Ohio as we continue building a national movement around genealogy, lineage, health, and Reparations education.

We’re helping people start family trees, explore lineage, and reconnect with histories too often lost or hidden.

More cities. More families. More power.

Learn more, sign up.

Link 👉🏿https://t.co/kuhMTNt4hb

#READRoots #Genealogy #Reparations #AmericanFreedmen @cjecofficial @USFreedmenPrj #blackcaucusofcentralohio

[Coalition For A Just & Equitable California @cjecofficial]

SACRAMENTO! #Juneteenth2026 SATURDAY June 13th, 1PM - 4PM in Elk Grove, join @cjecofficial @AmericanRedress in collaboration with @CABWHP for free genealogy and family history tracing as a way to commemorate our Ancestors and our connection to the people Juneteenth is about.

This is more than a free genealogy workshop.

This is where our roots become the roadmap to Reparations. Because lineage shapes wealth, health and power.

Sign up today.
Spots are limited. Link 👇🏿

https://t.co/kuhMTNt4hb

#READRoots #SacramentoEvents #FamilyHistory #Reparations

[Coalition For A Just & Equitable California @cjecofficial]

California’s #Reparations Task Force studied Reparations movements and historical examples from around the world — and the pattern was clear:

Real Reparations means tangible economic repair.

Cash payments.
Financial and tangible assets.
Lineage-specific eligibility.

Not symbolism.
Not studies.
Not commissions.
Not broad public programs rebranded as Reparations.

Real Reparations = Real Wealth Returned.

@cjecofficial

Info: https://t.co/1kZxVPVpts

#RealReparations #lineagematters #ReparativeJustice #CJEC #CaliforniaReparations

[Coalition For A Just & Equitable California @cjecofficial]

Our lineage is more than history.

It shapes wealth.
Wealth shapes health.
Health and wealth shape power.

So what if learning about your family history could also help shape Reparations, and our future?

This Juneteenth week, begin your journey with READ Roots.

READ Roots is our new community-based genealogy and empowerment experience helping individuals and families explore whether they are descendants of people enslaved in the United States while building family history, health awareness, civic knowledge, and leadership.

READ Roots is more than an event—it’s a 6-week journey through genealogy, health, civics, advocacy, and leadership.

Join the movement, starting this Juneteenth week.

📍 Sacramento | Oakland | Los Angeles (more to come)
🔗 Sign up: https://t.co/kuhMTNt4hb

#READRoots #FamilyHistory #JuneteenthWeek #Genealogy @cjecofficial #sacramento #LA #Oakland #CAReparations #lineagematters

[Coalition For A Just & Equitable California @cjecofficial]

Reparations must be real.

Studies, apologies, government bureaus, and symbolism are not Reparations.

Real Reparations means:
• Cash Payments
• Financial & Tangible Assets
• Lineage-Based Eligibility

Clarity matters.

Reparations requires action.

👉🏿https://t.co/rD07nmavp8

#Reparations #CJEC #cuthecheckca @cjecofficial

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@leapofficialorg Amazing WORK 💯!!! Thank YOU!

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Restoring Stolen Legacies.

David Drake (Dave the Potter) was an enslaved Black American artist who wrote his name into history — even when the law said he shouldn’t be able to.

Today, his work carries value. But his story raises a deeper question:

What is owed to the family behind the legacy?

Featuring Dr. Kellie Farris, working directly with the Drake family through genealogy, and Chris Lodgson, advancing legislative efforts around lineage and recognition.

A conversation where history, family, and policy come together.

Saturday, April 11, 2026
11:00 AM PT
Virtual (Zoom)
Register via link 👇🏿 or QR code.
https://t.co/669mV3REFL

#davethepotter #genealogy #americanfreedmen @cjecofficial

[Coalition For A Just & Equitable California @cjecofficial]

Our people can and do know their ancestry. No study required.

Case in point:

Join the amazing @leapofficialorg for ROOTS TO REPAIR 🌿✊🏾

LEAP is hosting a powerful community genealogy workshop focused on tracing Black American lineage for justice & reparations.

🗓 Saturday, March 28 | 3:00 PM
📍 Los Angeles FamilySearch Center
🅿️ Free parking

Open to the public — especially American Freedmen ready to document their lineage.

RSVP: https://t.co/x9ZSTEUsBU

#RootsToRepair #Genealogy #ReparativeJustice #LEAP @cjecofficial #AmericanFreedmen

[LEAP @leapofficialorg]

Join us for ROOTS TO REPAIR 🌿✊🏾

LEAP is hosting a powerful community genealogy workshop focused on tracing Black American lineage for justice & reparations.

🗓 Saturday, March 28 | 3:00 PM
📍 Los Angeles FamilySearch Center
🅿️ Free parking

Open to the public — especially American Freedmen ready to document their lineage.

RSVP: https://t.co/Kv8w1fHVxJ

#RootsToRepair #Genealogy #ReparativeJustice #LEAP

[Coalition For A Just & Equitable California @cjecofficial]

🚨 BREAKING: We’ve officially introduced #AB2723 with California Assemblymember @AsmTangipa — legislation focused exclusively on American Freedmen, the descendants of those enslaved and emancipated from U.S. chattel slavery.

AB 2723 establishes the California American Freedmen Affairs Division within the Secretary of State’s office, building durable genealogy and administrative infrastructure for American Freedmen residents across the state.

Clear documentation makes targeted resources possible — without confusion, delay, or duplication.

Our bill protects personal information, strictly prohibits involvement in law enforcement activity, and requires ongoing reporting and independent audits.

Importantly, our bill also formally recognizes this population as foundational to both American and California history and ensures that documentation and governance systems reflect that reality.

No study. No delay. No enforcement.

Learn more. Read the full bill breakdown:
https://t.co/CrCKBrPOM8

#AB2723 #CJEC #Genealogy #CaliforniaLegislature #AmericanFreedmen #CALeg @cjecofficial

[Coalition For A Just & Equitable California @cjecofficial]

Black American History is being made right now!

Because of legislation written @cjecofficial, California state employees who are descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. can NOW self-identify on official state forms — helping make our communities visible in the data that drives policy and resources.

This is how repair begins: being seen, being counted.

City and county employees: this option is coming for you too, starting January 2027.

Learn more and take part 👇🏿
https://t.co/e7b6l9rCQ6

#BlackAmericanHistory #Delineation #Reparations #OurStoryOurDataOurFuture #CJEC #LineageData #CaliforniaEmployees

[Coalition For A Just & Equitable California @cjecofficial]

This movement was built door by door, block by block, conversation by conversation.

For years, CJEC volunteers have shown up — in neighborhoods, community meetings and events, living rooms, online spaces, family conversations, city council meetings, county board sessions, in the Capitol building, the prisons, high schools and college campuses, barbershops and beauty salons, corner stores and grocery stores, parks, gas stations, and more — on the ground, reaching into our commnity, listening, educating, organizing, mobilizing, and advocating for real Reparations and Reparative Justice.

Black American History is being made right now in California — by everyday people doing extraordinary work. We're your neighbors and your family members. And we do this for you, and for us.

This Black American History Month, help us keep it going.

Giving is participation, not charity.
Give to sustain the movement
https://t.co/j82wooc6Lc | Scan the QR code
More to come. Stay with us.

#Reparations
#ReparativeJustice
#AmericanFreedmen
#GrassrootsPower
#CJEC
#BlackHistoryMonth

[Coalition For A Just & Equitable California @cjecofficial]

Focused. Disciplined. Been here. Still here.

While the conversation around #Reparations has shifted in many directions, our focus and discipline has remained clear and consistent: Reparations and Reparative Justice for American Freedmen in California.

That focus and discipline has produced CJEC��s 2026 American Freedmen Reparations & Reparative Justice Policy Package: a comprehensive and growing set of proposals grounded in lineage, historical truth, and direct repair, created with and by the community we serve.

https://t.co/odsT2bEPAS

We invite you to provide your ideas and feedback.
We're building this together.

This work centers #AmericanFreedmen as a #foundational American population and advances policies that honor our elders, secure our youth, stabilize families, and sustain direct compensation over time.

These proposals are not abstract. They are concrete, sequenced, and built to move resources where harm occurred — through direct income, data delineation, housing support, workforce pathways, cultural restitution, health, and more.

This is only the beginning. We’ll be sharing more details on each part of the package, how it fits together, and what it will take to make these proposals real in 2026.

If you want to help bring these policies to life, specific ways to get involved are coming soon. Stay tuned, follow CJEC, and be ready to move with us. @cjecofficial

[Coalition For A Just & Equitable California @cjecofficial]

Like Slavery, the Crack era didn’t appear out of nowhere — it grew out of government decisions that still impact the descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. today.

The Facts:

• In the 1980s, Government-linked drug traffickers moved cocaine into the U.S.
• That cocaine supply later became crack in our neighborhoods.
• The Government's own files show U.S. agencies knew about the drug activity.

Join us Dec 12 in Berkeley/Oakland as we unpack the hidden mental health costs of the crack era — and what real #Reparations require.

📍 YWCA Berkeley/Oakland | 6–8 PM
🔗 https://t.co/U1IhH19e2Q

Hosted by @CABWHP with support from @cjecofficial

#HealingAcrossCalifornia #Reparations #CABWHP #MentalHealth #Wealth #RealReparations #CJEC #generationsinterrupted

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From Slavery to the Crack era, U.S. government-sponsored harm against descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. has left a lasting impact on our health.

Here's what we know:

U.S. Government (CIA)-linked networks moved cocaine into Black American communities in the U.S. during the 1980s — a pipeline later documented in federal investigations and reporting.

Journalists like Gary Webb showed how this pipeline helped fuel the cocaine supply that became crack in our neighborhoods.

U.S. agencies were aware of these networks as crack was destroying the health of our neighborhoods, our families, and us.

Join us Dec 12 in Inglewood as we talk truth, healing, and what real #Reparations require.

📍 Black Lantern Books | 6–8 PM
🔗 https://t.co/U1IhH19e2Q
Hosted by @CABWHP with support from @cjecofficial

#HealingAcrossCalifornia #Reparations #MentalHealth #Wealth #RealReparations