Over 200 leaders and advocates from 22 nations revisited the 2015 Reparations Summit in New York, birth of the NAARC, the CRC’s contribution to galvanizing the movement on four continents…
Severe food insecurity has disproportionately affected lower income respondents and the most vulnerable with deepening effects since the start of the pandemic. By Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes — A series of…
Individuals first to receive Evanston reparations benefit EVANSTON, IL – The first 16 beneficiaries of the City of Evanston’s historic Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program have selected the benefits they’ll receive…
Weeks after William and Kate’s controversial Caribbean tour, more nations signal plans to ditch the monarchy By Shanti Das, The Guardian — Sitting across from the prime minister of Antigua and…
Research commissioned by Bank in the wake of Black Lives Matter uncovers grim history of colonial Grenada. By Jasper Jolly — In the late 18th century Britain’s Caribbean island colony…
IN SUMMARY A task force is helping state officials examine how African Americans have been harmed by slavery and systemic racism and, weighing that, how the state should respond. What…
The meeting comes ahead of a June report showing how the institution of slavery continues to reverberate throughout California. By The Associated Press — California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force meets…
By Michael Harriot, TheGrio — On Sept. 30, 2020, 401 years after human traffickers landed in Virginia and sold Africans to English settlers, California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 3121. The legislation…
This op-ed argues that Black labor organizers have long recognized that better conditions for Black and brown workers result in better conditions for everyone. By Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman and Katie…
By Timothy A. Wise, Mongabay — A scathing new analysis of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) finds that the program is failing at its objective to…
Access to clean, affordable and safe drinking water is far from universal across Africa. By Joyce Chimbi, IPS — Joan Waweru was among villagers on their regular trek to the…
Above is a video version of the interactive map on Slate that demonstrates the scale of the transatlantic slave trade. By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the…