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The Reparations Investment Company (RIC), a new project of the Black Power Blueprint, is renovating some of the thousands of abandoned and deteriorating buildings that scar North St. Louis. Through renovation and reconstruction, RIC is creating affordable, quality housing that strengthens and stabilizes our community.

Proceeds from the sale of the RIC homes go directly to our community to fund programs of the Black Power Blueprint; the impact of each property renovation will be exponential.

RIC hires skilled Black and Indigenous contractors, creating employment and keeping money circulating within our community. We welcome the participation of volunteers of many skill levels and walks of life to contribute to this project.

APEDF President Ona Zené Yeshitela has called on the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, an organization of white people who work under the leadership of the Uhuru Movement, to build the Reparations Investment Company to voluntarily contribute to an infusion of resources into North St. Louis.

RIC is building a reparations-centered network of investors, donors, contractors, skilled laborers, and volunteers who contribute to sustainable, black community-driven real estate acquisition, renovation, and development that generates lasting social impact for the whole community.

Black Power Blueprint challenges the City’s long term plan to push our community out of our homes

Through decades of deliberate city government policies, St. Louis has let the once-thriving African community deteriorate as part of a plan to displace our people and gentrify the northside.

Nine months after the May 16th tornado, the City has refused to support thousands of Black homeowners in North St. Louis whose homes were damaged—while directing resources to white neighborhoods on the southside and downtown.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a massive 2,000‑acre U.S. military intelligence site less than 2 miles from the Uhuru House, is driving the gentrification of our community. The City is using the devastation from the May 16 tornado as an opportunity to take our property and push our community out.

Black Power Blueprint Programs are constructing a new world for our community today

For nearly a decade, the Black Power Blueprint has been transforming the northside, acquiring properties and developing them into beautiful and uplifting self-reliance programs, such as the Uhuru House, The One Africa! One Nation! Farmers Market, the Gary Brooks Black Power Community Garden, the Black Power Vanguards Community Basketball Court.

The BIG REVEAL is coming this Spring …

Black Power Blueprint is launching:

Shamba La Uhuru Freedom Farm, Uhuru Bakery & Cafe, Buy Black Power Store, African Independence Workforce Program and improvements to Black Power Vanguard Basketball Court .

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The Black Power Blueprint is leading the Reparations Investment Company along with all the other growing Black Power Blueprint Programs to revitalize our community, transform our conditions and create the world we all want to live in.

Click here to read more about RIC.

To invest or volunteer, contact info@uhurusolidarity.org.

Volunteer Spotlight: Camille

Camille, who is now the N2U Volunteer Coordinator for RIC, says:

“I believe protesting and disagreeing with the system is important, but for me actions will speak louder than words ever will. The RIC allows me to work materially against colonial and oppressive systems and give power back to people from whom it was stolen.”

Eliedh Construction

We want to send our special thank you to Eliedh Construction! We have partnered with this growing family business for over 3 years. They are a fixture of the ever expanding Black Power Blueprint development process that is transforming every aspect of life in our community. We appreciate all your tremendous work and help to make housing available in our community once again!

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