By Jessica Faieta — This month the world marks two key International Days: for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October and for Disaster Reduction, four days earlier. It is no coincidence that they are profoundly connected. Reducing risks related to disasters has never been so urgent—and the Latin America and the Caribbean region bears witness to this. Seven hurricanes have hit the Caribbean…
By Rebekah Barber, Facing South — As a child growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, Cassandra Welchlin witnessed the struggles her mother endured working as a maid. She also learned the importance of serving those in need from her foster grandmother, who instilled in her the importance of taking care of the community’s elderly and disadvantaged. Welchlin took those lessons…
By J. Gabriel Ware, Yes Magazine — A decade ago, researchers reported that more than half of Detroit residents live in a food desert — an area where access to fresh and affordable healthy foods is limited because grocery stores are too far away. Efforts since then to bring more grocery stores — and food security — to predominantly Black neighborhoods haven’t worked.
Topic: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of the Inimitable Dick Gregory. Guests: Mark Thompson, Host, Make It Plain, SIRIUSXM, Atty. Faya Rose Toure, Founder, National Voting Rights Museum
By Constance Grady — We Were Eight Years in Power, the new book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, is not precisely new. It’s a collection of eight articles Coates wrote for the…
Topic — Tribute to Haki Madhubuti and 50th Anniversary of Third World Press Foundation. Guests — Haki Madhubuti, Co-Founder, Third World Press Foundation, Chicago. Safisha Madhubuti, Co-Founder, Third World Press Foundation, Chicago. Herb Boyd, Writer, Author, Political Commentator, New York. Bakari Kitwana, Author, Political Commentator, Hip Hop Activist, New York
Reparations: An issue Whose Time Has Come. National African American Reparations Commission’s New Orleans Area/Regional Hearing and Town Hall Meeting. Topics: A Preliminary 10 Point Reparations Program and HR-40 The Congressional Bill to Study Reparations Proposals. Special Guest: Danny Glover, Actor. Activist, Mirielle Fanon Mendes-France, President, Franz Fanon Foundation, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Chairman, CARICOM Reparations Commission, Congressman John Conyers, Dean of Congressional Black Caucus, Sponsor of HR-40 and Members of the National African American Reparations Commission. Locations TBA. Further Information: naarc.nola@gmail.com
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Topics — Dr. Claud Anderson’s Powernomics Revisited and Revived, IBW’s Black Family Summit Responds to Hurricane Disasters, Commentary and Audience Call-In. Guests — Bob Law, Legendary Talk Show Host/Radio Activist, Brooklyn, N.Y., Leonard Dunston, Convener, IBW’s Black Family Summit, Durham, N.C., Rev. Randy Vaughn, Senior Pastor, Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, Port Author, TX, Jacqui Patterson, Director, Environmental and Climate Justice Program, NAACP, Baltimore, MD (invited)
This weekend, a series of taunting messages from the president led to a widescale protest among players in the NFL, and beyond. Terrell Suggs took a knee. Leonard Fournette took a knee. At a game played in London on Sunday afternoon, many of their fellow Ravens and Jaguars took a knee. Before the Lions met the Falcons in Detroit on Sunday, Rico LaVelle sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.” And then he took a knee. They were replicating the gesture of Colin Kaepernick, the former 49ers quarterback who, starting in 2016, had been kneeling…
Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. September 23, 2017. Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles issues the following statement on the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria: “Hurricane Irma’s fury preceded Maria’s by a deadly Caribbean second. Together they constitute the familiar sound of death and destruction reminiscent of a colonial past that clings to the present and is determined to possess and own the Caribbean future.
By The Conversation — Hurricane Maria, the 15th tropical depression this season, is now battering the Caribbean, just two weeks after Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc in the region. The devastation in Dominica is “mind-boggling,” wrote the country’s prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, on Facebook just after midnight on September 19. The next day, in Puerto Rico, NPR reported via member station WRTU in San Juan that “Most of the island is without power…or water.” Among the Caribbean…
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