LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Justice League of Greater Lansing was founded in 2021, in efforts to bridge the racial wealth gap brought on by the nation’s legacy of slavery.
The group seeks to make connections between faith and racial justice in the form of reparations.
Sunday morning, during the weekly service at First Presbyterian Church of Lansing , church leaders handed off the second and final installment of the church’s donation. The total in reparations funds donated by the church to the Justice League: $100,000.
This is the same church you may have seen at the state Capitol on Juneteenth, making a formal apology for the nation’s historical enslavement of African Americans.
“Because African Americans don’t have generational wealth in this country, it’s difficult to have housing, even–[and] housing, generally, is how families pass on their wealth,” said Willye Bryan, founder of The Justice League of Greater Lansing.
Most of the members of First Presbyterian Church are happy with where the money is going, but one member said she still has questions.