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 Maya Schenwar Victoria Law. (Photo: PM Press)In Resistance Behind Bars, regular Truthout contributor Victoria Law provides much-needed documentation of collective organizing and the daily struggles inside women’s prisons. This second edition…
By A Mechele Dickerson The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a report this month that reveals stark disparities in the amount of wealth American households recovered after the 2007-2009 recession, with white-owned…
by ANDRE VLTCHEK Do not take the Latin American revolutions for granted. They inspired the entire Planet. They brought hope to every corner of our scarred Earth. But now they…
By: Peniel E. Joseph U.S. President Barack Obama sings ‘Amazing Grace’ while delivering the eulogy for South Carolina state senator and Rev. Clementa Pinckney during Pinckney’s funeral service June 26,…
Mark Peterson/Corbis Days after the massacre at a black church in South Carolina, some Americans woke to a vile surprise: KKK fliers with candy on their lawns. The propaganda—stuffed into plastic…
By Lucas Koerner Philadelphia, June 24, 2015 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has declared that his government would support an initiative by the Community of the Caribbean (CARICOM) to demand reparations…
Kearston Farr comforts her daughter, Taliyah Farr, 5, as they stand in front of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on June 19, 2015. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)…
By: Breanna Edwards Dylann Roof The president of a white supremacist group that was referenced in a manifesto attributed to accused Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal shooter Dylann Roof donated tens…
By Jamil Smith @JamilSmith A hated people need safe spaces, but often find they are scarce. Racism aims to crowd out those sanctuaries; even children changing into church choir robes…
By Roberto A. Ferdman The Confederate flag flies near the South Carolina Statehouse, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt) In the aftermath of Thursday’s tragedy in…
By Rebecca Traister When, on Wednesday night, a 21-year-old white man named Dylann Roof entered the Charleston church founded by former slave Denmark Vesey on the anniversary of Vesey’s planned 1822 slave…
By Ta-Nehisi Coates Last night, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church, sat for an hour, and then killed nine people. Roof’s crime cannot be divorced from the ideology of…
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