Interview with Jacob Pinney-Johnson

Jacob Pinney-Johnson was interviewed as part of SHARE’s Reparations in the Black World oral history collection which was developed in partnership with the students in a Black Reparations course at Western Michigan University. Mr. Pinney-Johnson was interviewed by Jayvon Smith and Ivan McHerron Jr., students in the aforementioned course. During the interview, Mr. Pinney discussed the following topics: How his family have been civil rights activists in Kalamazoo for over 100 years; His great grandmother being on the executive committee for the Michigan Manual for Freedman’s Progress; His father, president of the youth chapter of the NAACP, helping lead the Van Avery Drug Store Boycott; The Fatherhood Network; Racial wealth disparities; How he has personally experienced racism and discrimination Workforce development; Environmental Justice; His life goals and purpose; His thoughts on reparations Kalamazoo’s racist past, and; Kalamazoo County’s unfulfilled resolution on economic reparations.