Reparations Telethon 2025

The 7th Annual Giving Tuesday Reparations Telethon is a fundraiser to raise $20,000 for the African People's Education and Defense Fund and the Reparations Investment Company. The APEDF mission is to defend the human and civil rights of the African community and end the disparities faced by African people. APEDF's work in North St. Louis includes the Black Power Blueprint, transforming North St. Louis through renovation, economic development and political power by and for the Black community. Since 2017, the Black Power Blueprint has purchased abandoned, dilapidated buildings, initiating a rapid process of restoration or demolition and re-allocation of land to create community-generated, self-reliance programs that uplift the residents and engage them socially, politically and economically in the future of their community.

The 2025 Giving Tuesday Reparations Telethon is an exciting opportunity to take a positive stand in support of the anti-colonial struggle of African people and all oppressed peoples of the world! Your support of the Black Power Blueprint is a concrete way to join the fight-back in defense of the right of African people to free speech and political expression and the right to build the independent power to feed, clothe and house themselves.

The Reparations Investment Company, a newly launched joint program of APEDF and Black Star Industries, renovates properties in north St. Louis for the purpose of contributing to sustainable economic development, affordable housing and property ownership. RIC is recruiting investors, donors, contractors, realtors and volunteers to support Black community-led revitalization of properties for sale or rental, rebuilding the Northside and generating resources for Black community economic self-reliance programs. Donate to support the installation of a new roof on the first Reparations Investment Company property! Join this dynamic new initiative to support genuine development in a once-thriving community left to deteriorate by decades of deliberate city policy. Stand in solidarity with the African community reclaiming power over their neighborhoods!

Donate to Black Power Blueprint: https://blackpowerblueprint.org/donate

Register on Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/reparationstelethon2025

Join on Youtube: htttps://youtube.com/uhurusolidarity

Join on Facebook: https://facebook.com/uhurusolidarity

The 7th Annual Giving Tuesday Reparations Telethon is a fundraiser for the African People's Education and Defense Fund and the Reparations Investment Company.

APEDF’s mission is to defend the human and civil rights of the African community and end the disparities faced by African people.

APEDF's work in north St. Louis includes the Black Power Blueprint, transforming this historically Black community through renovation, economic development and grass-roots political power by and for the Black community.

Since 2017, the Black Power Blueprint has purchased abandoned, dilapidated buildings, initiating a rapid process of restoration or demolition and re-allocation of land to create community-generated, self-reliance programs that uplift the residents and engage them socially, politically and economically in the future of their community.

The Black Power Blueprint is going beyond protest, towards the capture of political and economic power for African people. It is actively negating colonialism by uplifting and empowering the African working class.

The Reparations Investment Company is a bold vision of the Black Power Blueprint which will accomplish the important work of reversing gentrification and colonialism and building Black community self-reliance.  We are contributing to the capacity of the African community that is struggling for economic and political power as an act of solidarity not charity.

Donate to support the installation of a new roof on the first Reparations Investment Company property! Join this dynamic new initiative to support genuine development in a once-thriving community left to deteriorate by decades of deliberate city policy. Stand in solidarity with the African community reclaiming power over their neighborhoods!

Here are this year's outreach materials: FOLDER LINK. Please print out posters, club cards or flyers and bring the Giving Tuesday Reparations Telethon to your friends, family and community.

• Register on Zoom: Tinyurl.com/ReparationsTelethon2025

• Make a pledge today! BlackPowerBlueprint.org/donate

• STL Black and white income disparities are increasing.

• STL now ranks the 7th highest disparity in household income between black and white people in the US. The average white income in St. Louis is $66,942 versus $33,325 for African families.

• 30% of black families have 0 or negative wealth!

• 60% of the STL African community lives at the poverty line, with 30% in deep poverty.

• 40% of African children live in deep poverty.

• 2337 African people per 100,000 are in the colonial prison system in Missouri.

• In 7 St. Louis county neighborhoods, the median family income is only $21,000 a year for a family of four.

• In STL only 33% of black families own their homes, versus 71% for white families.

• The odds of an unarmed African person being killed by police is 6.6 to 1. Body cameras have done little to nothing to reduce the number of police killings here.

• Between 2010 - 2016 the city of St. Louis spent $4.7 million of taxpayers’ money in settlements for police murders and wrongful imprisonment.

• There is an 18 year gap in life expectancy at birth between North St. Louis zip codes and the Clayton area, separated by less than 10 miles.

• 12% of African families in St. Louis live surrounded by concentrated poverty, versus 1% for whites.

• 82% of impoverished African children in STL will never be able to climb out of poverty.