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Rev. Dr. Agorom Dike unites America, Africa and the Caribbean through faith-based partnerships

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

Rev. Dr. Agorom Dike is founder and President of the Caribbean and African Faith Based Leadership Conference. By Grit Daily — If history has taught us anything, the most influential…

July 19, 2022

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Members of the Global Circle reparations delegation that met with the Vatican

Global Reparations Leaders Call Meeting With the Vatican Successful

By IBW21News & Current Affairs, Press Releases / Statements

Collaborative Process for Repair to Begin Vatican City, July 18, 2022 — Under the umbrella of the Global Circle for Reparations and Healing, a delegation of global reparations leaders was received…

July 18, 2022

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Louis Weathers says racial discrimination in Evanston, Illinois, made house hunting difficult for him decades ago. (Jacquelyne Germain / CNN)

The fight for reparations has stalled in Congress. Here’s what they look like in state and local governments

By IBW21Editors' Choice, Reparations

State and local governments are leading reparations efforts across the country to address the racial wealth gap and compensate Black Americans for the harms of slavery and institutional racism. By…

July 18, 2022

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Then-NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Gregory Robinson stands with other officials to watch a spacecraft launch at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in September 2016. NASA

How the son of sharecroppers helped send the world’s most powerful telescope to space

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

By Rachel Treisman, NPR — NASA released the first batch of images from the James Webb telescope this week, wowing the world with never-before-seen views of ancient and distant galaxies. The approximately…

July 18, 2022

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A statue of civil rights icon Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled in a ceremony in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol, replacing a statue of a Confederate general.

Statue of Black Educator Replaces Confederate General in U.S. Capitol

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

Mary McLeod Bethune is the first Black American to be represented with a state statue in the National Statuary Hall. Her likeness replaces a statue honoring one of the last…

July 18, 2022

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A marker memorializes Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Carol Denise McNair—four girls who were killed by white supremacists in the terrorist bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham on Sept. 15, 1963.

BWA resolutions condemn racism, commend reparations

By IBW21Editors' Choice, Reparations

By Ken Camp, Baptist Standard — The Baptist World Alliance general council adopted resolutions that denounce racism as “a sin against humanity and God” and call for reparations for chattel…

July 18, 2022

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Police officers in riot gear stand guard in front of the U.S. Capitol where a rally is held to defend supporters of former president Donald Trump who were arrested for storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021

The US is descending into a crisis of overt fascism. There’s still a way out.

By IBW21Editors' Choice

The right is seeking to steal elections and deputizing vigilantes to constrain our rights. U.S. democracy is in peril. By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout — The specter haunting the United…

July 15, 2022

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Armed forces secure an area of state offices in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, July 11, 2022

Thousands trapped as gangs battle for control in Port-au-Prince

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

MSF says corpses line only road into isolated area of Cite-Soleil, Haiti, which rival gangs have turned into a ‘battlefield’. By Al Jazeera — Thousands of people are trapped without…

July 15, 2022

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Joe Biden, then-Vice President meets with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in 2011.

Biden once wanted to make Saudi Arabia a ‘pariah’ – so why is he playing nice with the kingdom’s repressive rulers now?

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

Joe Biden is set to make his first visit as president to the Middle East, during which he will meet the Saudi crown prince the US accuses of ordering the…

July 15, 2022

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A new U.S. quarter shows Nina Otero-Warren, a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools. U.S. Mint

Nina Otero-Warren – Latina champion of women’s voting rights and education in New Mexico – will soon grace US quarters

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

As a women’s rights activist, Nina Otero-Warren fought for the right for women to vote in New Mexico. Now, her image is featured on the US quarter. By Anna María…

July 15, 2022

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Reparations, like the real Jubilee, are radical

By IBW21Editors' Choice, Reparations

Reparations is more than an act of defiance and protest; it is the equivalent of a modern-day Jubilee. By Wale Hudson-Roberts, Christian Today — This year, Her Majesty the Queen…

July 14, 2022

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The Spirit of Detroit outside the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, Detroit

Detroit City Council sets up reparations task force

By IBW21Editors' Choice, Reparations

The body is charged with helping to determine how to address what many Detroiters said is a legacy of governmental systemic racism. By Ken Coleman, Michigan Advance — After 80%…

July 14, 2022

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