Tuesday & Thursday · 6:00pm – 7:00pm Central
Overview of the program · Commitment to the cause
Building the group that walks into City Council together
Truth Before Repair
Kansas City already apologized. On January 12, 2023 the City Council passed Ordinance 220966 by a 10-to-1 vote, apologizing for the city's role in slavery and segregation and declaring its intent to make amends. Repair starts with that apology being honored, not shelved.
Foundational Black Americans First
Reparations are owed to the descendants of the Africans enslaved in this country — Foundational Black Americans. That is the specific lineage that was harmed and that specific lineage is who is repaired. This is who the B1 in B1 Brigade stands for.
Direct Cash, Land and Housing — Not Programs About Us
Repair is paid to people and families, not spent on services administered to us. Direct cash payments. Title to homes. Land. Ownership. If a dollar leaves City Hall in our name, it ends up in our hands, our deeds, our accounts.
Business Capital at Scale
Grants and zero-interest capital for FBA-owned businesses in the very neighborhoods that were redlined and bulldozed. Not a mentoring program. Money to build, hire, own property and pass the business down.
Education Repair
Tuition, trade school and paid apprenticeships for FBA descendants. Black history taught in every grade in every KC-funded school — the full story of what happened here, including Troost Avenue, redlining, and the urban-renewal demolitions.
Health Repair
Fund community health centers in the ZIP codes that were cut off from care. Maternal mortality program. Mental health care in every school and recreation center. The harm reached our bodies; so does the repair.
Land Return and Tax Relief
City- and county-owned lots in the historic Black neighborhoods are returned — with clear title — to FBA families and FBA-owned community land trusts. Property-tax abatement on the recovered land so families are not taxed off it after they get it back.
Public Accounting
Every dollar of reparations funding appears on a public dashboard the Mayor's Commission maintains in perpetuity. Who got paid. What was built. What is left. We follow the money ourselves.
Protection From Backsliding
A City Charter amendment so a future council cannot quietly repeal or unfund what this one adopts. Repair that can be undone by the next election is not repair. We lock it in.
The Council Votes YES in February 2027
The Mayor's Commission on Reparations delivers its final report in February 2027. The Brigade shows up at the City Council session that follows and watches them vote. Adopt the recommendations. Fully fund them. On the record. In public.
🏛 The Finish Line: KC City Council · Feb 2027
Every Tuesday and Thursday from now until then, we meet, we learn these ten, we grow. The day the Council votes, the Brigade is in that room.
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