Facilitated by Ms. Diane Pollard and Mrs. Nell Gibson. Hosted by Task Force Against Racism.

The New York Diocesan Reparations Committee was created by the 330th Diocesan Convention in response to three 2006 General Convention resolutions calling on dioceses to respond to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its aftermath of segregation and discrimination. At this year’s 2009 General Convention, the Church extended the study until 2012.

The role of the Reparations Committee is to collect and document information on the complicity of the Diocese of New York in the institution of slavery and its subsequent history of segregation and discrimination. The committee will consider the benefits the Episcopal Church derived from the institution of slavery and collect, through documentation and storytelling, information on historical and present-day privilege and under-privilege in order to discern a process toward restorative justice.

The Reparations Committee of the Diocese of New York will be conducting this workshop that will include the showing of a DVD followed by discussion about the history of Trinity Church.

Please RSVP to Antoinette Harris at aharris@trinitywallstreet.org or (212) 602-0710.