After a quarter of century of combating structural racism and pushing back against the rise of hateful and intolerant far-right policies, the European Network Against Racism believes now is the…
A painful history of destabilizing interventions looms over international efforts to pull together a security force. By Widlore Mérancourt and Amanda Coletta, Washington Post — Antonio Saint Louis lives in…
UN secretary general says no country has comprehensively accounted for the past. By Aamna Mohdin, The Guardian — A UN report calling on countries to consider financial reparations for transatlantic…
Ahead of his address at the UN General Assembly, Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel payed tribute to Malcolm X in Harlem. The ceremony marked 63 years since the historic meeting between…
More than 200 people rallied outside San Francisco’s City Hall to urge supervisors to act on reparations for Black residents. By Janie Har, AP — Reparations advocates urged San Francisco…
Georgetown University and the Jesuits have made a $27 million pledge to the descendants of enslaved people sold to fund the school. By Iman Milner, Black Enterprise — Georgetown University…
By Madison Pina, Howard University News Service — Unity and service were two ideas that Howard University’s 18th president, Ben Vinson III, focused on during his speech on Friday at…
By Matt Spetalnick, Reuters — The Biden administration is preparing to unveil new regulatory measures to allow more U.S. financial support for small private businesses in Cuba, a person familiar…
Lloyd’s of London and Church of England also to be approached over role in past exploitation. By Donna Ferguson, The Guardian — Caribbean nations are preparing formal letters demanding that…
Amid right-wing backlash and setbacks in the historic effort to rewrite the dictatorship-era constitution, Pinochet’s shadow still hangs heavy. By Carole Concha Bell, NACLA — Ahead of Chile’s 50th anniversary…
Caribbean activists helped make reparations a mainstream concept. Now they hope ex-colonial powers will commit to paying, even if it’s not the trillions of dollars slavery is estimated to have…
While it’s widely believed that Howard University came to be known as “The Mecca” in the 1960s, new evidence shows the nickname is more than half a century older than…