IBW21 (The Institute of the Black World 21st Century) is committed to enhancing the capacity of Black communities in the U.S. and globally to achieve cultural, social, economic and political equality and an enhanced quality of life for all marginalized people.
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout — Last week, just days after Hurricane Irma thrashed through the Caribbean with record-high winds, the Catholic bishop of the island nation of Dominica sent a letter to the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Bishop Gabriel Malzaire pleaded with the IMF to temporarily delay debt payments from Antigua and Barbuda and other islands left in ruins by the storm. “The few dozen small…
September 23, 2017 Post Update: Professor Verene Shepherd’s CBC, Washington D.C. speech available here Professor Verene Shepherd, Social Historian and Director of the Centre for Reparation Research at…
Cancellation Impacts Thousands of African and Caribbean Origins BALTIMORE – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the country’s original civil rights organization, today filed a lawsuit…
Topics: The Quest for Black Economic Empowerment, The Stop Museveni Campaign. Guests: Nataki Kambon, Spokesperson, Let’s Buy Black 365, Washington, D.C., John William Templeton, Co-Founder, Black Business Month, San Francisco, CA, Milton Allimadi, Editor/Publisher, Black Star News, New York, NY
Flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey in Southeast TX (Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Daniel J. Martinez) Hotep Family, I have visited Port Arthur several times over the years,…
Democrats not only colluded with Republicans in the robbery—some may now be willing to allow corporations to evade hundreds of billions they owe in back taxes. By William Greider — The party of Trump is being torn to pieces by its own crackpot, bigoted leader, and Democrats are eagerly feeding on the carcass. But we can already see that the Democratic Party is astride its own contradictions.
Across the country families are getting wealthier, but rosy coverage of new census figures is hiding an alarming fact. By E.A. Crunden — New Census Bureau data shows an increasingly…
The median American income is up, but black Americans still aren’t getting their fair share. By Liz Posner, AlterNet — Here’s some good news and bad news about the economy….
1. Validation of Our Humanity, 2. Completion of the Emancipation Process, 3. Compensation Must Be Proportionate to the Crime, 4. Reparations Must Produce the Just Society, 5. Africans Must Exercise Autonomy Throughout the Process, 6. We Must Repair Ourselves, 7. Self-repair Will Generate Mass Support for Reparations, 8. Reparations Must Be a Broad Movement, 9. The Mass of Our People Must Be Intimately Involved, 10. Network and Establish a New International Legal Structure
As our country becomes more diverse, our racial wealth gap means it’s also becoming poorer. By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chuck Collins — America’s middle class is under assault. Since 1983, national median wealth has declined by 20 percent, falling from $73,000 to $64,000 in 2013. And U.S. homeownership has been in a steady decline since 2005. While we often hear about the struggles of the white working class, a driving force behind…
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