University’s 30th president marks inauguration with praise for trailblazers, hope for a future enriched by ‘dynamic engagement’ on and beyond campus. By Alvin Powell, The Harvard Gazette — Claudine Gay…
Brown University Incarceration Conference opens with movement icon Angela Davis and other Black feminists assessing Mumia Abu-Jamal and gender. By Todd Steven Burroughs — Special to IBW21.org The mind is…
By Hazel Trice Edney — Thousands of Black people had protested and many had died at the hands of police, White supremacists and racists as they engaged in non-violent campaigns…
Documents found by a British researcher and republished by The Washington Post show evidence of the monarchy’s intimate role in the transatlantic slave trade. By Karla Adam, The Washington Post…
Banco do Brasil, one of country’s biggest banks, under scrutiny as institutions called to account for role in trafficking of Africans. By Constance Malleret, The Guardian — Brazilian prosecutors have…
Women make up 51% of the population, and Afro-Brazilians 56%, but no Black woman has ever sat on the highest court. By Constance Malleret, The Guardian — A young Black…
By Rafael Bernal, The Hill — A group of Haitian-American elected officials is calling on President Biden to withdraw support for a Kenya-led peacekeeping mission in Haiti, which they say will bolster…
By April Rubin, Axios — President Biden joined striking autoworkers in Detroit on Tuesday, marking what appeared to be the first time a sitting president has ever visited a picket line. Why it matters: The…
The harm caused by transatlantic chattel slavery is vast, and its repercussions continue to resonate in the lives of the descendants of the enslaved. Scholars have long worked to document,…
Cattle may have been imported from Africa centuries earlier than historians thought. By Andrew Curry, AAAS — Think “cowboy,” and you might picture John Wayne riding herd across the U.S….
Hunter-Gault talked to MPR News host Angela Davis about her latest book, her conversation with Nelson Mandela, how she made history and why Black history needs to be told. By…
By Ralph Tedy Erol, Reuters — Haiti’s most powerful gang leader called for the armed overthrow of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, urging Haitians to take to the streets against the…