
Brazil has finally started hearing very public demands for reparations for its role in slavery. By Eléonore Hughes, AP — The executive manager for institutional relations at a Brazilian state…
Brazil has finally started hearing very public demands for reparations for its role in slavery. By Eléonore Hughes, AP — The executive manager for institutional relations at a Brazilian state…
The film retells the political persecution of popstar-turned-politician Bobi Wine as he takes on the longtime Ugandan leader. By Sophie Neiman, Al Jazeera — This January, when Bobi Wine learned…
A debate is roiling about the aptness of comparing Trump to European fascists. But radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American…
In October last year, the UN Security Council backed Kenya’s offer to lead a multinational security force to Haiti. By Ian Wafula, BBC News — The Kenyan High Court has…
By Sarah Pruitt, History — Though exact totals will never be known, the transatlantic slave trade is believed to have forcibly displaced some 12.5 million Africans between the 17th and 19th centuries;…
After last year’s “Hip-Hop 50” celebrations omitted much of the genre’s activist history, some lifelong fans say rap no longer feels revolutionary. By Timmhotep Aku, Andre Gee, Rolling Stone —…
Life in Grenada, the island my grandparents once left for the UK, is safe and caring. Here, I feel that freedom is my birthright. By Zoe Smith, The Guardian —…
The Palestinian cause has revived a partnership forged in the civil rights era — and also created new tensions. By Daniel Bergner, The New York Times — Eva Borgwardt first…
Congresswoman Cori Bush has introduced a resolution to advance efforts to secure reparations for Black Americans. Who is with her? By Kaitlyn Kennedy, Tag 24 — Bush made international headlines…
A year after announcing plans to seek a reparations consultant and create plans for the section 14 survivors, attorney Areva Martin says the city voted no and her clients have…
“We recommend that the City of Tulsa establish a government sanctioned task-force or commission to establish and implement the terms of a reparations program,” the report concluded. By Deon Osborne,…
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post — A Republican presidential primary campaign that has often focused on issues of race — Donald Trump’s “poisoning the blood” rhetoric, Ron DeSantis’s slavery curriculum…