[Cure-news] White Supporters of Black Reparations Launch Stronger Web Presence

[Ida Hakim]

Caucasians United for Reparations and Emancipation (CURE)
PO Box 156, Red Oak, GA 30272
www.ReparationsTheCURE.org


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: April 30, 2008

Contact:
Ida Hakim, hakimida at reparationsthecure.org

White Supporters of Black Reparations Launch Stronger Web Presence

Caucasians United for Reparations and Emancipation (CURE) today 
announced the launch of their new website, featuring an updated design, 
new resources for faith communities, a new donor guide with advice for 
individuals and organizations that want to support the reparations 
movement but don't know where to start, expanded links, a video of the 
month, consolidated access to a growing archive of the organization's 
news feed, a section featuring the group's members and a re-tooled forum 
for discussion of reparations providing better interaction with the 
public in their ongoing and longstanding 'Dialogue with White America'.

A new section, Our Community, gives more details on longtime CURE 
members, and their social justice efforts, including links to their own 
websites.  "We wanted to let the world know that persons who support 
reparations don't exist in a vacuum," said Ida Hakim, the group's CEO 
who spent the past two months retooling the organization's site. "Our 
members are broadly committed to justice, and they have identified 
support for reparations as a major justice responsibility for themselves 
as whites."

CURE members have won Associated Press awards, founded youth centers, 
launched anti-racist initiatives in their faith communities, trained 
anti- racist therapists, organized against racial profiling, written 
insightful books on race, created films on reparations, crafted Amicus 
briefs for the supreme court, spoken at UN workshops, conducted white 
privilege workshops, and founded the White Anti-Racist Community Action 
Network, another web resource for whites opposing racism.

"New technology, new capabilities, new sections, new members, and new 
energy are revitalizing CURE," said Hakim about the group, which was 
founded in 1992 in response to the request of a black reparations 
leader. "I hope when you come here you'll see your neighbors and 
friends. We want the world to know that white people advocating for 
black reparations is not a fringe idea. It's a very authentic and real 
form of justice work. There are very many white people who want to see 
changes come to pass. Our job is to make it easier for them to be an 
accountable part of those changes."

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Caucasians United for Reparations and Emancipation
http://www.ReparationsTheCURE.org