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.
Five years ago I stood in a slave castle on Senegal’s Gorée Island at the infamous Door of No Return. Our guide told us that once Africans walked through this doorway, which opened right into the Atlantic Ocean, they were gone forever. During the slave trade, shackled blacks were led out the door and forced onto ships that waited on the other side. If a slave tried to turn back, he could be shot and fed to the sharks that loitered nearby.
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-supported ‘Advancing Partners and Communities’ (APC) Project, in collaboration with Guyana Business Coalition…
Cobb, author of This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, and Danielle McGuire…
This week, the NYPD reported a 13.2 percent increase in shootings across the city since January, compared to the same time frame last year.
The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer was a pivotal moment for democracy in America. Yet 50 years later, despite many gains at the local level, the dream of Freedom Summer remains largely unrealized in the stretch of heavily black southern states known as the Black Belt. There are a number of significant and troubling signs:
At the Sixth and I synagogue in Washington on Thursday night, people were reselling tickets out on the street as if a playoff game…
An Atlanta high-school student with beautiful bronzed-colored skin raised her hand and calmly announced that she sometimes wished she were darker.
Executive Summary of the Report Card Perhaps no other US government program in recent decades has inflicted more social, psychological and economic damage on African-American communities than the ill-fated War…
I was lying in bed—otherwise known as my office—just now, listening to WBLS, when one of the commentators announced that Ruby Dee had died, at the age of ninety-one.
The World Cup 2014 is set to begin today in São Paulo and end on July 13 in Rio de Janeiro.
And what is the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and how afraid of them should everybody be?
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