With new focus on Haiti’s payments to France to compensate enslavers, here’s a look at how this happened in the United States, too. By Gillian Brockell, The Washington Post —…
By Scott Merzbach, Amherst Bulletin — Amherst has never experienced a racially motivated attack similar to the weekend’s shooting that killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York….
The decision to give back the Namibian jewellery coincides with last year’s recognition of the German Empire’s genocide in the early 20th century. By Jonny Walfisz, AFP — A German…
By Helen Chickering, BPR — The newly formed Asheville-Buncombe Community Reparations Commission passed its first recommendation Tuesday night. The proposal by former city council member Keith Young, who has played a major…
In Texas, a teacher told her students she was required by law to provide them with multiple perspectives on the racist conspiracy theory that allegedly motivated the deadly attack. By…
PATTERSON… the defence of the right to self-determination and the sanctity of national sovereignty without interference, which we have consistently waged for decades, are principles that are eternal. Statesman-in-Residence at…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — On behalf of the African American Cultural Center (Us), we send greetings of solidarity and increased and continuing struggle to all African peoples throughout the…
During the year 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted the French and founded a nation. But France made generations of Haitians pay for their freedom. How much it cost them was a…
By Kassandra Frederique, Truthout — With more than a million lives lost in the United States in the two decades since the drug overdose crisis began and more than 103,500 in 2021 alone, some would…
By Hazel Trice Edney — When a former client of leading Black real estate broker Donnell Williams was about to get his house refinanced in Wharton, New Jersey, Williams quoted…
Faced with racist crimes such as the Tops shooting, some Black Americans consider a time-honored option: emigration. By Karen Attiah, The Washington Post — Accra, Ghana — In 1961, 93-year-old…
Capitalism is pushing to expand on the backs of working masses who can tolerate no more hardship and deprivation. By William I. Robinson, Truthout — The world has entered an…