Boston Reparations Task Force 

The city and task force selected researchers to conduct both original historical research and provide a comprehensive review of major themes and findings on the city’s history from 1620 to the present in a written report.

A budget of $500,000 will support the effort, and funding comes from the annual operating budget and federal relief funds.

Tufts University and community partners: The contracts are awarded to Kerri Greenidge, Mellon associate professor in the Department of Studies of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University; Kendra Field, history professor and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University; and Kyera Singleton, executive director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters. Their team will review the years 1620 to 1940.

Northeastern University and community partners: A coalition from Northeastern University, led by Margaret Burnham, director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, and Deborah Jackson, managing director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race, will cover the years from 1940 to the present. The team also includes Ted Landsmark, professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern; community leader Donna Bivens, and Richard O’Bryant, director of the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute.