Topic/Premium — Slave: Days of Blood, Days of Tears – Narratives of Enslaved Africans. Guest — Dr. Patrick Delices, Scholar, Journalist, Candidate for City Council, New York, NY.

By Kenneth T. Andrews — Do protests and social movements matter? Do they really bring about change? Answering this question is tricky. It’s not obvious, for example, how much the recent shift to the right in American politics reflects the efforts of the Tea Party movement and how much it reflects deeper developments such as increasing racial hostility and negative reactions to globalization. Sometimes a movement matters far less than the social, economic and political forces that give rise to the movement itself.
Video: Opening Night — Launch of the Centre for Reparation Research at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, Jamaica. Also watch: Plenary session at Launch of the…

Video: Region Talk interview with Samia Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician and daughter of former president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The interview hosted by Professor Rupert Lewis. Originally aired on October 19,…

Credit: Northwestern University by Hilary Hurd Anyaso — News about the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) breaks daily—”Can Black Lives Matter Win in the Age of Trump?” “Black Lives Matter…

By Axel Honneth — Not since the end of the Second World War has the dissatisfaction with social and political consequences of capitalism been greater. Yet, unlike previous periods of…

By Thaddeus Talbot, Hugh Handeyside, and Malkia Cyril, www.aclu.org — A recently leaked FBI “Intelligence Assessment” contains troubling signs that the FBI is scrutinizing and possibly surveilling Black activists in its search…

They train to fight. They post their beatings online. And so far, they have little reason to fear the authorities. By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham for ProPublica — It was about 10 a.m. on Aug. 12 when the melee erupted just north of Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia. About two dozen white supremacists — many equipped with helmets and wooden shields — were battling with…

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — The Jamaican leg of the CARICOM Reparations Youth Baton Relays and Rallies was launched in St Thomas, yesterday, to encourage participation from young people and the general public for the success of the region-wide movement. Speaking at the ceremony held at the Morant Villas, Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, said…

African Unity and Reparatory Justice Keynote Speech Delivered by Hon. Samia Yaba Nkrumah, President of the Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Centre on October 10th, 2017, at the Launch of the Centre…
Video: A conversation on Reparations between Prof. Pedro Welch (Chair of the Barbados National Task Force on Reparations) and David Commisiong (Host of the University of the West Indies…

By David Gespass, Justice Initiative International — Lenin argued that, even after a revolution, the former ruling class still controls most of a country’s wealth and its ideology still pervades….