By Austyn Gaffney, Smart Cities Dive — Dive Brief: Providence, Rhode Island, Mayor Jorge Elorza last week signed an executive order creating a city commission to develop recommendations on how to facilitate…
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The Underground Railroad conductor’s understanding of botany, wildlife biology, geography and astronomy allowed her to guide herself and others to safety By Liza Weisstuch, Smithsonian — Harriet Tubman successfully navigated…
A task force in charge of the state’s reparations effort, the first in the nation, is struggling to decide which Black Californians should receive payments. By Soumya Karlamangla, NYT —…
The city’s task force is developing short-, mid- and long-term recommendations on how best to address governmental systemic racism and is collecting input from the community on who should be…
VP Harris champions voting rights on ‘Bloody Sunday’ anniversary: ‘We will not let setbacks stop us’
By Gerren Keith Gaynor, TheGrio — Voting rights and Black America’s historical fight for equality was front and center on Sunday as Vice President Kamala Harris, White House officials, members…
By Denise Oliver Velez, Daily Kos — I’ve been watching conversations on social media surrounding the need to include Caribbean History, along with Afro-Latin American history, as part of what…
Schoolchildren in the British capital have developed a dialect, Multicultural London English—and my American-born son is learning it. By Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker — In the summer of 2018,…
“We need to do this in order to protect our rights, rights we already have, rights we shouldn’t have to still be fighting for.” By Tom Conway — E.J. Jenkins…
By Michele Miller — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Four days later, Civil Rights Warrior and Congressman John Conyers Jr. took to the…
By Michela Moscufo, NBC News — At a virtual town hall meeting in August, generations of Japanese American community organizers spoke alongside leaders from the Black reparations movement. Called “Reparations…
The dispute, which has spanned 14 years and several federal governments, has long been a sticking point in Ottawa’s efforts to advance reconciliation with Indigenous people. By Amanda Coletta, The…
Reparations Needed to Combat “Jim Crow Debt” By Dr. V.P Franklin (NAARC Commissioner) — Why should lower or middle-income students graduate with substantial educational debt from colleges and universities with…
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