First Presbyterian Church in Lansing, Michigan, among other white churches in the area, has donated thousands toward the reparations effort led by the Justice League of Greater Lansing.
A church in Lansing, Michigan, is committed to aiding the Black community through raising funds for reparations. White members of the First Presbyterian Church have donated thousands to support racial justice efforts.
First Presbyterian Church gave a lofty $40,000 check to the Justice League of Greater Lansing, founded in 2021, while also sending the social justice organization $18,000 in 2023. According to the Lansing Street Journal, the group seeks to provide reparations, with funds obtained by other white churches in the area to distribute to Black community members.
First Presbyterian Church’s promise has yet to be wholly fulfilled, pledging $100K overall to the reparations cause. The quest to do so comes after white congregations voted in 2022 to begin fundraising to support reparations for Black people in an effort “to repair the breach caused by centuries of slavery, inequality of wealth accumulation, and the failure to live into God’s plan of equality for all of humanity.”