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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.

The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks by Randall Robinson

By Commentaries/Opinions, Reparations

I looked straight up and immediately saw the callous irony, wondering if the slaves who had helped to erect the structure might have bristled at it as quickly as I. The monumental fresco covering 4,664 square feet had been painted by Constantino Brumidi in 1864, just as the hideous 246-year-old American institution of slavery was drawing to a close. According to the United States Capitol Historical Society, Brumidi’s Apotheosis of George Washington had been painted in the eye of the Rotunda’s dome to glorify “the character of George Washington and the principles upon which the United States was founded.”

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March 28, 2015
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The Obama/Caricom summit

By Commentaries/Opinions

While Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller presses ahead with arrangements for a state visit to Jamaica by President Barack Obama on April 9, plans are otherwise being finalised on a work agenda for a meeting between the US President and Heads of Government of the 15-member Caribbean Community.

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March 28, 2015
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Dr. Ben in his own words

By News & Current Affairs

Toward the front of the headquarters of the National Action Network in Harlem there is a chair—no a throne—that was placed there for the venerable Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan. Every Saturday for more than a decade Dr. Ben, as he was affectionately and internationally known, would arrive there and take his place as part of the audience, primarily to hear the Rev. Al Sharpton.

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March 24, 2015
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