The group is one of a small cohort that has popped up in recent years that are using social media to crowdsource funds to distribute to Black people, and calling these efforts a form of reparations. Even preceding Reparations Roundtable was the Facebook group Reparations: Requests and Offerings, run by a Seattle-based conceptual artist, Natasha Marin. The phenomenon of crowdfunded reparations, as well as municipal and state-level reparations legislation, concerns people such as Duke’s Darity, who described these initiatives as “piecemeal” programs.