The African American Redress Network is a collaboration between Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and Howard University's Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. Founded in January 2019, AARN has released its first Annual Report highlighting the growth of the program. AARN works to advance U.S. racial justice initiatives and local reparations, while simultaneously providing students with opportunities to learn from these movements. Using a human rights framework, AARN students analyze the gross wrongs of enslavement, dispossession, and institutionalized anti-Black violence. Our model draws inspiration from the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 60/147 and guidance by the International Commission of Jurists (2018) to define reparations and inform our advocacy.
