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Schmidt, Kelly L. “‘Regulations for Our Black People’: Reconstructing the Experiences of Enslaved People in the United States through Jesuit Records.” In Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus, 1–23. Chestnut Hill: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2021.
https://jesuitportal.bc.edu/publications/symposia/2019symposium/symposia-schmidt/.
Schmidt, Kelly L. “Slavery and the Shaping of Catholic Missouri.” Missouri Historical Review, Spring 2022.
Schmidt, Kelly L. “St. Joseph’s College, Bardstown, Kentucky.” Slavery, History, Memory, and Reconciliation Project – Jesuits.org, March 2020.
https://www.jesuits.org/our-work/shmr/what-we-have-learned/st-josephs-college-bardstown-kentucky/.
Craig Steven Wilder urges College to investigate its institutional history in Claiming Williams evening keynote address
https://williamsrecord.com/459332/news/craig-steven-wilder-urges-college-to-investigate-its-institutional-history-in-claiming-williams-evening-keynote-address/
Schmidt, Kelly L., and Billy Critchley-Menor. “To Jesuits, Black Americans Were Objects of Ministry, Not Agents of Their Own Faith.” Daily Theology (blog), October 28, 2020.
https://dailytheology.org/2020/10/28/to-jesuits-black-americans-were-objects-of-ministry-not-agents-of-their-own-faith/
Schmidt, Kelly L. “The Pervasive Institution: Slavery and Its Legacies in U.S. Catholicism.” American Catholic Studies Newsletter, April 5, 2022.
https://cushwa.nd.edu/news/the-pervasive-institution/.
Schmidt, Kelly L. “‘Without Slaves and without Assassins’: Antebellum Cincinnati, Transnational Jesuits, and the Challenges of Race and Slavery.” U.S. Catholic Historian 39, no. 2 (2021): 1–26.
https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2021.0010.
Schmidt, Kelly L. “Augustine Queen and His Family.” Slavery, History, Memory, and Reconciliation Project – Jesuits.org, January 2021.
https://www.jesuits.org/our-work/shmr/family-histories/augustine-queen/.
Schmidt, Kelly L. “Enslaved Faith Communities in the Jesuits’ Missouri Mission.” U.S. Catholic Historian 37, no. 2 (2019): 49–81.
https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2019.0008.
“My Reparations Victory: What Comes Before Word And Deed”
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“GHOSTS TOO CLOSE: This week’s 1919 DC Race Rebellion and the tragic history of DC’s Lafayette Park”
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“3 things wrong with ’10 things we get wrong about reparations’: An open letter to Rolling Stone from an advocate for H.R. 40, the federal reparations bill”
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“Sister Search: Remembering my Howard University Roots During this Women’s History Month”
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“Reparations, Not Only Possible … But Inevitable!”
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“Reparations, in Our Lifetime”
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“Reparations – Has the Time Finally Come?”
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“There is Bipartisan Agreement on the ‘Uncivility’ of Civil Asset Forfeiture”
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3. Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW21)
Taifa’s contributions to IBW21 delve into reparations and social justice:
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“Personal statement of Nkechi Taifa on the granting of compassionate release to William Underwood”
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“Of Terror and Promise: On This MLK Day, There’s No Better Time to Call for Reparatory Justice!”
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“The New Terrorism, Like The Old Terrorism”
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“What a Black Power Attorney Tells Us About How to Handle a Biden/Harris Presidency”
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“Amy Coney Barrett: Handmaid or Heroine”
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“Another Mighty Tree Has Fallen With the Passing of Congressman John Conyers, Jr.”
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“The Big Lie About Race and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”
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4. Medium
Taifa shares her perspectives on current events and the reparations movement:
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“Staying Strong in the Fight for Reparations in a Time of Political Turmoil: My Message to the Reparations Movement”
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5. Columbia Journal of Race and Law
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“Let’s Talk About Reparations”
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📚 Books by Nkechi Taifa
Reparations on Fire: How and Why It’s Spreading Across America
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Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice
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Children’s Books: Shining Legacy, The Adventures of Kojo and Ama, Three Tales of Wisdom
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ARTICLES:
Schmidt, Kelly L. “‘Regulations for Our Black People’: Reconstructing the Experiences of Enslaved People in the United States through Jesuit Records.” In Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus, 1–23. Chestnut Hill: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2021.
https://jesuitportal.bc.edu/publications/symposia/2019symposium/symposia-schmidt/.
Schmidt, Kelly L. “Slavery and the Shaping of Catholic Missouri.” Missouri Historical Review’, Spring 2022.
Schmidt, Kelly L. “St. Joseph’s College, Bardstown, Kentucky.” Slavery, History, Memory, and Reconciliation Project – Jesuits.org, March 2020.
https://www.jesuits.org/our-work/shmr/what-we-have-learned/st-josephs-college-bardstown-kentucky/.
Craig Steven Wilder urges College to investigate its institutional history in Claiming Williams evening keynote address
https://williamsrecord.com/459332/news/craig-steven-wilder-urges-college-to-investigate-its-institutional-history-in-claiming-williams-evening-keynote-address/
Schmidt, Kelly L., and Billy Critchley-Menor. “To Jesuits, Black Americans Were Objects of Ministry, Not Agents of Their Own Faith.” Daily Theology (blog), October 28, 2020.
https://dailytheology.org/2020/10/28/to-jesuits-black-americans-were-objects-of-ministry-not-agents-of-their-own-faith/
Schmidt, Kelly L. “The Pervasive Institution: Slavery and Its Legacies in U.S. Catholicism.” American Catholic Studies Newsletter, April 5, 2022.
https://cushwa.nd.edu/news/the-pervasive-institution/.
Schmidt, Kelly L. “‘Without Slaves and without Assassins’: Antebellum Cincinnati, Transnational Jesuits, and the Challenges of Race and Slavery.” U.S. Catholic Historian 39, no. 2 (2021): 1–26.
https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2021.0010.
Schmidt, Kelly L. “Augustine Queen and His Family.” Slavery, History, Memory, and Reconciliation Project – Jesuits.org, January 2021.
https://www.jesuits.org/our-work/shmr/family-histories/augustine-queen/.
Schmidt, Kelly L. “Enslaved Faith Communities in the Jesuits’ Missouri Mission.” U.S. Catholic Historian 37, no. 2 (2019): 49–81. https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2019.0008.
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2. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
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Taifa’s contributions to IBW21 delve into reparations and social justice:
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4. Medium
Taifa shares her perspectives on current events and the reparations movement:
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5. Columbia Journal of Race and Law
An academic perspective on reparations:
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