A Review: the “Economic Report on the State of the Black World” By The New York Christian Times. “We Need to Move the Needle” — Rev. Dennis Dillon By Mamadou…
America’s best-known ornithologist written out of history – Wilson’s warbler, top, will be renamed, as will Audubon’s shearwater, named after John James Audubon. By Keiran Southern, The Times — Birds…
State legislation is seeking to impose limits on discussions of racism in North Carolina, even as one city ramps up its effort to compensate Black residents. By Brentin Mock, Bloomberg…
A scholar who has studied Palestinian refugees for 20 years explains the history of their displacement and the stakes involved for those living in an indefinite exile. By Michael Vicente…
Rev. Robert Turner walks from Baltimore to DC each month to raise awareness of the need to compensate Black Americans for slavery, discrimination and broken promises. By John-John Williams IV,…
A coffee table book authored by Nelson Mandela’s daughter, Dr. Pumla Makaziwe Mandela, takes a look at the family man behind the statesman with never-before-seen private photography. By Tom Page,…
Although Black and Hispanic Americans have accumulated more wealth in recent years, their net worth still lags far behind that of White Americans. By Tami Luhby, CNN — Although Black…
Black people in the United States inhabit a unique and precarious space in discussions of the horrible recent events in the Middle East. By Karen Attiah, The Washington Post —…
Attorneys with the Federal Public Ministry gave Banco do Brasil 15 days to apologize for its role in slavery and present a plan for some form of reparations. By Terrence…
The movement to compensate American descendants of slavery has gone from 40-acres-and-a-mule to local governments. But who should get paid and how? By Rebekah Sager, Reckon — The current U.S….
Researchers are at last revealing how slavery and the slave trade shaped the country’s institutions. By Constance Malleret, The Guardian — On 27 July 1825, a brig called Espadarte (Swordfish)…
By Ted Glick — I’ve been arrested three times so far this year for nonviolent direct actions (nvda) on the climate crisis. I don’t think I’ve ever been arrested more…