
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…
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…
By Kim Whiting, TheReporters.org — In Tulsa, Oklahoma, not even Martin Luther King gets south of the tracks. The north side of town encompasses the predominantly Black, low-income neighborhoods and MLK…
By Sir Ronald Sanders — On March 25, the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, publicly pointed out that “only six of our 34 active member…
By Emmanuel Joseph, Barbados Today — Prime Minister Mia Mottley has made yet another call for reparations from Barbados’ former colonisers, stressing that slavery not only resulted in the underdevelopment…
Thousands of workers beat the odds and voted to become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the US. By Caitlin Harrington, WIRED — A SCRAPPY GROUP of Amazon workers in…