
The government uses a process called public procurement. A professor of public policy explains how the process works and how it is increasingly used to achieve social goals. By Ana…
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 government uses a process called public procurement. A professor of public policy explains how the process works and how it is increasingly used to achieve social goals. By Ana…
By Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon — In recent years, Danny Glover has used his formidable acting chops and Hollywood connections to boost a series of independent films that might…
By Ronald Cohen, TIME — Throughout my life I have been greatly helped. In 1957, when I was 11 years old, my family and I left Egypt as refugees in…
By Eloise Barry, TIME — The South African writer Damon Galgut was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize this week for his novel The Promise, which confronts the racist history of his native country…
The American Psychological Association has perpetuated racism for decades. By Nicole Chavez, CNN — The country’s leading scientific and professional psychology organization has issued a formal apology to communities of color for…
New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on a single firm, Franklin and Armfield, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people….
For a century and more, the conventional wisdom about the evolution of the financial systems embodied in institutions like Lehman Brothers was that modern American capitalism was built not on…
Lope Martín, an Afro-Portuguese pilot, was the first navigator to sail from the Americas to Asia and back. By Andrés Reséndez, TIME — In grade school and beyond, we learn…
By William I. Robinson, Truthout — A log-jam of container ships waiting to dock and unload in Los Angeles ports. Semiconductor shortages generating a backlog of orders around the world…
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, TomDispatch — When President Biden first unveiled the Build Back Better agenda, it appeared that this country was on the path to a new war…
He sits in prison after decades of fighting for Black liberation, forgotten by the nation that never understood him, writes Rembert Browne. By Rembert Browne, TIME — It seemed like…
The G20, an exclusive club of mostly wealthy nations, met just before the COP26 in Glasgow and paid little more than lip service to the world’s leading problems, while preserving…