
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was performed at the super bowl for the first time this year. Here’s why it still resonates with Black Americans. By Jessica Washington, The Root…
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was performed at the super bowl for the first time this year. Here’s why it still resonates with Black Americans. By Jessica Washington, The Root…
By Amb. David Comissiong — Some of our people have been saying that the “Reparation” sums offered by both Laura Trevelyan and the Anglican Church are too small. Of course…
Florida was the first state in the nation to pay reparations to survivors of racial violence. By Mary Ellen Klas, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau — As confusion lingers over what parts…
By Trevor Smith — “One of the gravest obstacles to the achievement of liberation is that oppressive reality absorbs those within it and thereby acts to submerge human beings consciousness.”…
A panel of UN experts paints a bleak picture of the state of racism in the UK, but the government says it is only “a superficial analysis” and that the…
Florida’s unapologetically racist governor, Ron DeSantis, has effectively declared war on the Black freedom movement. By Barbara Ransby, Truthout — Florida’s unapologetically racist governor, Ron DeSantis, announced last week that…
By John Stoehr, AlterNet — Tyre Nichols getting beaten to death has sparked another round of debate over American policing. Let’s cut to the chase. First, very little will change…
An apology only counts when there is a genuine process of reparation and reform. The people of the Dutch Caribbean are still waiting, says writer Jermain Ostiana. By Jermain Ostiana,…
African Americans are returning to countries like Ghana more than 400 years after their ancestors left Africa as slaves. Many say they want either to reconnect to history, or resettle…
Daily Mail takes a look at the reparations debate, and finds out whether small-scale efforts in liberal enclaves could ever amount to a national effort to tackle racism’s legacy once…
For many Black voters in Maryland who helped lift Wes Moore to victory, this moment — as he prepares to take his oath — is one of pride, and great…
By David Comissiong — On Monday 9th January 2023, a devastating blow was delivered to all those vested interests that would perversely seek to deny Africans and people of African…