
Leaders of the Global Reparations Movement met at the Vatican to discuss the Catholic Church’s involvement with the Transatlantic Slave Trade and ways in which the church can make amends…
Leaders of the Global Reparations Movement met at the Vatican to discuss the Catholic Church’s involvement with the Transatlantic Slave Trade and ways in which the church can make amends…
Weary of waiting for the federal government to act on reparations for black Americans, churches and other faith groups have started their own programs. By Julia Duin, Newsweek — On…
By Ronald Sanders — I am indebted for the title of this commentary to the Honourable Bruce Golding, former prime minister of Jamaica, who has been and remains one of…
By Henry Giroux, CounterPunch — I consider the survival of National Socialism within democracy to be potentially more menacing than the survival of fascist tendencies against democracy. –Theodor Adorno 1959…
Newport launched more slave trading voyages than anywhere else on the continent. Local efforts and a state law now push students to learn that history. By Asher Lehrer-Small, The 74…
Toni Morrison said it best, “The function, the very serious function of racism is a distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over…
Several observations from this week’s “Season Finale” of the House 1/6 Committee that stand out more than others (at least for us) …. By B|E strategy — As we’ve just…
It’s been 35 years since a papal visit to an Indigenous community in Canada. By Megan Williams, CBC — The last time a pope visited an Indigenous community in Canada was…
Reading City Councilman Wesley Butler says he is drafting an ordinance on municipal reparations for Black residents in Reading. By Anthony Orozc, WITF — Randy Johnson sat in front of…
Often portrayed as an abolitionist, Hamilton may have enslaved people in his own household. By David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine — For Jessie Serfilippi, it was an eye-opening moment. As she…
By Baher Kamal, IPS— South Africa, the home land of the late giant fighter against Apartheid, racism and discrimination – Nelson Mandela “Mandiba”, is already ‘on the precipice of explosive…
Good union jobs built America’s blue-collar black middle class. But the percentage of black workers in manufacturing has been halved since the 1970s, yielding poverty and precarity. We can’t achieve…