Our Mission
EJAA works to repair the economic harm of slavery and systemic discrimination by advancing reparative policy, organizing Black communities, and building the knowledge and tools for generational wealth.
Our Story. Our Responsibility.
EJAA exists to repair the economic harm of slavery and systemic discrimination — and to build the power, ownership, and opportunity Black communities deserve.
Our Vision
A nation where the wealth stolen and denied across generations has been repaired — where Black communities hold the economic power, ownership, and opportunity to thrive for generations to come.
Our Framework
The Three-Phase Theory of Black Liberation
EJAA believes the struggle for Black freedom has moved through three phases.
The first ended slavery. The second ended legalized discrimination.
The third — our phase — must repair the economic damage the first two left behind.
Each phase removed a barrier; none returned what was taken.
That unfinished work is ours.
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Phase One
Abolition
Ended the ownership of human beings, but freed people with no land, capital, or compensation.
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Phase Two
Civil Rights
Ended legal discrimination going forward, but never reversed the wealth already extracted and denied.
We Are Here
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Phase Three
Reparation
Our work now: actively repairing the racial wealth gap, not merely ending discrimination but restoring what was taken.
Founder Story
Christian “Cece” Worley
EJAA was founded in 2020 by Christian “Cece” Worley, who was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. A Marshall-Motley Scholar and Georgetown Law student with a master’s in public administration, she has traced her own lineage to enslaved ancestors in North Carolina and won a precedent-setting federal civil-rights case — representing herself. She brings to EJAA both the tools and the lived conviction this work demands.
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