§ 34-202 Truth and reconciliation topics and proceedings.
AC § 34-202
a. Topics to be addressed. The truth and reconciliation process shall address topics relating to the history and effects of slavery and its legacies in or in connection with the territory that is now the city of New York, as defined in section 34-102. In selecting topics to be addressed, CORE shall consider, at minimum, rights violations, events, practices, systems, and consequences in relation to the following: 1. Topics prioritized by community stakeholders, especially those relating to harms and injustices experienced by descendants and family members of persons who were enslaved in or in connection with the city of New York; 2. Historical or ongoing civil and political injustices and inequities, which may include but need not be limited to the physical and psychological abuses, sexual violence, torture, and death, including by lynching, of enslaved persons and their descendants; race-based, legal and extralegal barriers to voting and other forms of political participation; racially discriminatory police violence and over-criminalization; and other forms of racially discriminatory violence and oppression; 3. Historical or ongoing economic, social, and cultural injustices and inequities, which may include but need not be limited to enslaved persons’ abduction from their homelands and communities; deprivation of economic autonomy; forced family separations; cultural oppression and erasure; segregation and “Jim Crow” laws; community displacement; redlining and other forms of discriminatory zoning and development; environmental injustice; mental, physical, and reproductive health inequities; pay and employment disparities; and other psychological and social repercussions of racial discrimination and trauma; 4. Differentiated experiences of harms and injustices associated with race-based discrimination and violence as they may have varied or vary on the basis of sex, gender, religion, ethnic and cultural origin, language, educational attainment, socioeconomic status, ability, or other personal characteristic; 5. The involvement of government, corporate, financial, educational, religious and community-based entities in perpetrating or supporting slavery and its legacies; 6. Time periods, practices, or events of particular relevance to the physical site of a public forum or to nearby residents and affected communities; 7. Systemic and lived connections between various racial injustices or inequities; and 8. Past and present contributions of New Yorkers to addressing, repairing, and fighting against slavery and its legacies. b. Opening date. The truth and reconciliation proceedings required by this chapter shall commence, in accordance with the plan required by subdivision b of section 34-201 no later than June 19, 2028. (L.L. 2024/091, 10/12/2024, eff. 10/12/2024)
