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 Christina Pazzanese/Harvard Staff Writer Credit: Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer “This is not about retribution and anger, it’s about atonement; it’s about the building of bridges across lines of moral justice,” said…
By David Jessop Globalisation touches us all. Its reach extends far beyond economic issues. It has in just a few decades made industries, markets, cultures, policy-making and criminality interconnected in…
By Terrance Heath In the 2016 presidential primary, Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders can’t afford to take African-American votes for granted. With the Iowa caucus and the New…
Supporters hold Hillary Clinton Campaign signs in January in Columbia, South Carolina. (photo: Sean Rayford/Gett By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Fusion The African-American vote is always critical for Democrats. In 2008 and…
By Simon T. Meiners Each February millions of Americans pretend that white supremacy is dead. Black History Month? Reverse racism. Slavery? It’s over. Reparations? Fat chance. But here’s what few seem to understand: History…
By: Kirsten West Savali Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson Ben Carson wants us to know that he’s a black man, unlike President Barack Obama. He needs voters, white voters in particular,…
Above Photo: Flickr/ Jamelle Bouie Illustration by Kendrick Daye ..At its best the river of our struggle has moved consistently toward the ocean of humankind’s most courageous hopes for freedom and…
By Heather Digby Parton / Salon Donald Trump greets eager supporter Robin Roy at a campaign rally in Lowell, Massachusetts. Photograph: Brian Snyder Photo Credit: Reuters The big showdown in South Carolina…
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. I met Bernie Sanders in the late 1980s when he was a visiting fellow at Harvard University still contemplating his political future. We had…
By Maya Rhodan For over an hour on Thursday, 31-year-old activist and educator Brittany Packnett sat beside President Obama at a table in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for…
By Aislinn Pulley, Truthout President Obama in Washington, DC, on September 18, 2014. The Obama administration invited civil rights activists and leaders from around the country to the White House to…
Protesters march in support of Black Lives Matter, January 1, 2014. (Joe Brusky / Flickr) Leaders from the Black Lives Matter and reproductive justice movements recently announced a formal organizational…
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