LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Justice League of Greater Lansing has announced that it will receive $100,000 in reparations funds this Sunday from the First Presbyterian Church of Lansing.
“ The Justice League is building an endowed reparations fund to address the racial wealth inequity in Greater Lansing,” according to a news release from the Justice League.
The church congregation will present the $100,000 check to the organization during the church service, which is Sunday, Feb. 4, from 10-11 a.m.
Financial reparations support home ownership, education and entrepreneurship, according to the Justice League.
“Church members have long studied topics of white privilege and fragility, and have intentionally nurtured a relationship with another church that has a predominately Black congregation,” said Stan Jenkins, pastor of First Presbyterian Church .
“But it was the death of George Floyd that acted as an immediate galvanizing force,” Jenkins went on to say. “We could not turn away or hide our heads in the sand. We took steps to do more: We publicly confessed our complicity and actively sought, and continue to seek, to repair what has been broken through slavery and its legacy.”