Hon. Chris Rabb
Philadelphia State Representative Chris Rabb is a father, educator, author, and social justice activist.
Rabb — who has supported efforts to reform special elections, repeal the death penalty, and redistribute school funding in Pennsylvania — introduced legislation that would establish a reparations plan for slavery and systemic racism for people of African descent due to the laws, court rulings and practices of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 1776.
Presentations from Facing Race 2024
Impact over Identity: Crafting Rigorous Social Entrepreneurship Policy in, for, and by Communities of Struggle
This interactive workshop will provide historical context for the 60-year era of “minority business” development policy that was codified under the Nixon administration to cherry-pick Black citizens able and willing to contract with the federal government. Since 1969, these supplier diversity programs have focused on assisting well-placed, minoritized business owners with products or services that government agencies seek to procure. However, these programs never focused on outcomes related to improving the collective well-being of minoritized communities themselves. The goal of this session is to raise the literacy of participants as it relates to business formation, social entrepreneurship and racial equity.
Speakers: Hon. Chris RabbPresentations from Facing Race 2020
Facing Reparations
This moment, in which the entire world is standing up to declare that Black Lives DO Matter, is ripe with possibility. It’s time to organize and operationalize demands originating from the long legacy of struggles for reparations by Black people and support the work of Movement for Black Lives, N’COBRA, NAARC and innumerable local community organizers who have been leading this work in their neighborhoods.
During this session, we will define reparations, discuss how reparations are gaining momentum in various localities across the US such as Chicago, Evanston, California, and Pennsylvania as a viable redressal of state violence, how regional and federal reparations demands intersect with one another, and explore how people can advance the fight for reparations in their local jurisdictions.
Presentations from Facing Race 2014
Community Wealth-Building through Social Entrepreneurship
Exploring an innovative, hyper-local approach to community economic development through social entrepreneurship.
Speakers: Hon. Chris RabbPresentations from Facing Race 2012
Entrepreneurship and Racial Justice
This inventive workshop delves into innovation, business and social impact in the context of race and structural inequality. Led byChrisRabb, author, teacher and social entrepreneur in residence at Temple University, this fast-paced session will feature lively discussion, self-organized break-outs, engaging exercises, and a visually-oriented primer on the state of social entrepreneurship through the lens of racial justice.
Speakers: Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Hon. Chris Rabb, Andy Shallal