Ida B Wells Center on American Exceptionalism and Restorative Jus

The Ida B. Wells Center on American Exceptionalism and Restorative Justice (The Wells Center) is a not-for-profit public benefit organization, whose raison d’être is to serve as a catalyst for ideas, strategies, and intellectual stimulation through Scholarship, Engagement, and Action (SEA) in the creation of thought-provoking social, economic, and academic SEA-change in global arenas.

The Wells Center serves as a think tank forum to propose, advocate and publish creative perspectives, strategies, and solutions to address systemic race-based policies and practices rooted in America’s criminalization, exploitation, and disenfranchisement of black Englishmen in colonial times.

We advance the idea that structural racism, racial injustice, and economic disparity in America today is the product of a colonial times criminal scheme on the part of white Englishmen against black Englishmen and the documentary base for attacking its legitimacy is Anglo Saxon jurisprudence, the British common law and England’s Magna Carta of 1215, the Royal Assent by Commission Act of 1541, the Sedition Act of 1661, the American Colonies Act (Declaratory Act) of 1766 Rex v. Stapylton (1771) and Somerset v. Stewart (1772).

The Wells Center seeks to engage academia by bringing research and proffering findings for academic review, analysis and advancement and debate and then to U. S. policymakers and stakeholders, as black Englishmen were systematically exploited to serve as the bedrock of the U. S. slave pool and economy, in violation of the Treaty of Paris of 1773 and the Definitive Treaty of Peace in 1783, as verified and validated in historical records in the Book of Negroes and historical registries preserved in England and the United States.

We endeavor to change the social perceptions and racial prescriptive narratives of Blackness in America perpetrated and perpetuated by white predatory colonists in the criminal enterprise of slavery in colonial America.

We advocate for due process rights and legal recourse for the men and women unjustly enslaved and their descendants by giving them a voice to be heard.