
Until federal reparations happen, local organizations across the country are stepping up. By Ray Levy Uyeda, YES! Magazine — In 2019, Joseph Thompson, the director of multicultural ministries and assistant professor…
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.
Until federal reparations happen, local organizations across the country are stepping up. By Ray Levy Uyeda, YES! Magazine — In 2019, Joseph Thompson, the director of multicultural ministries and assistant professor…
What we learned from COP26 By Justin Worland, TIME — The overarching narrative emerging from COP26 is complicated. The deal that emerged—the Glasgow Climate Pact—wasn’t universally celebrated, nor was it…
Newark, New Jersey – The National League of Cities (NLC) released a 17-page report by the league’s Reimagining Public Safety Task Force, created to address police violence and inequities that…
By Tee Ngugi — Summary The developmental states, otherwise known as the Asian Tigers, are characterised by this sense of everyone feeling responsible — whatever their station in life —…
By Aanu Adeoye, TIME — When Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, launched an attack on the restive region of Tigray in his country’s north last November, he promised it would…
Ethiopia’s main religions need to take an emotional distance from politics and find a neutral space so they can get moral clarity. By Mohammed Girma, The Conversation — Ethiopia is…
FirstRepair to Host Leaders from Across the Nation New York, NY — Dr. Ron Daniels, Convener of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) announced today that the Commission will…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is travelling to Kenya, where he will be discussing the conflict in neighbouring Ethiopia. By BBC — US and UK citizens have been told…
By Tim Libretti — Political leaders and pundits throughout the exhausting and chaotically lawless years of Donald Trump’s presidency insistently reminded Americans that ours is a nation of laws, not…
By Wayne Campbell — “After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no State, because the State arose as an instrument to…
By Emilio Godoy, IPS — One element that runs through all social movement climate summits is their rejection of the official meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…
By Emilio Godoy, IPS — Developing countries will surely remember the Glasgow climate summit, the most important since 2015, as a fiasco that left them as an afterthought. That was the…