New single features Young RJ (of Slum Village), Ras Kass, Nkechi Taifa, Kymrence Young, and BLIS Co-founder and Guest Rapper Trevor ‘Tricky Trev’ Smith. FirstRepair and the BLIS Collective are proud to announce…
By Karen K. Ho, ARTNews — A recent poll found the majority of Britons, 53 percent, support a permanent exhibit at the British Museum about the transatlantic slave trade. New polling data…
Evanston, IL — Robin Rue Simmons, Founder and Executive Director of FirstRepair announced today that more than 150 community stakeholders, reparations advocates, scholars, public interest lawyers, elected officials and representatives…
By Diego Javier Luis, The Conversation — Across the United States, the second Monday of October is increasingly becoming known as Indigenous Peoples Day. In the push to rename Columbus Day,…
Friday, October 11, 2024, 3:30PM PST, 5:30PM CST, 6:30PM EST — “Over 30 organizations participating with opening statements from movement elders”
The Reparation Education Project (REP) is proud to announce the public unveiling of its powerful new video, “Reparations: From Concept to Reality,” produced to elevate the discourse on reparations in the United…
Monday, September 23, 2024, 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT — Join us for Reparations Rising: California’s Next Steps to get detailed updates on the California reparations movement, California…
By Catarina Demony, Reuters — LONDON, Sept 11 (Reuters) – All three candidates running to become the next secretary-general of the Commonwealth, a 56-nation club headed by Britain’s King Charles, said…
On Friday August 30, the Supreme Court of Maryland issued its decision in the case of Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition v. Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County. In its finding, the…
By Sean Gallagher, AAIHS — In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the law. Books by Jessica Millward and Martha Jones have…
Historic resolution passes with overwhelming vote New York, September 3, 2024 — The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), America’s oldest Black Christian denomination, is now on record supporting the struggle…
By Sister Sankofa, The Montpelier Bridge — As we lean into the celebrations of freedom during this time of year, with Juneteenth and the 4th of July, I wanted to…