February 4, 2024 — As a follow-up to an IBW delegation in October and in response to an invitation from the Hon. Dickon Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, the Institute…
In California’s crowded primary, can a longtime congresswoman sell her progressive ideals to the mainstream? By Emily Witt, The New Yorker — Los Angeles’s Kingdom Day Parade is billed as…
Congresswoman Cori Bush has introduced a resolution to advance efforts to secure reparations for Black Americans. Who is with her? By Kaitlyn Kennedy, Tag 24 — Bush made international headlines…
By Herb Boyd, New York Amsterdam News — At a virtual press conference convened on Thursday, July 21, by the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), and moderated by Dr….
Jackson Lee Calls Commission “Long Overdue” July 21, 2022, Washington, DC – Representative Sheila Jackson Lee and the HR-40 Strategy Group today held a news conference calling on President Joe…
JAN 18, 2022 7:30 PM EST — Join us for a panel that will explore the history and progress of movements for racial justice in America as embodied in the…
Rep. Barbara Lee — Whereas the International Day for People of African Descent will be celebrated for the first time on 31 August 2021; Whereas the United Nations has created…
The California Democrat was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. By Andrea…
Passed by Congress 19 years ago, the post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force, along with the 2002 AUMF, is still being used to justify wars that have not made us, or the world, safer. By Barbara Lee, Newsweek — More Americans have now died from COVID-19 than from the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Yet the United States is poised to continue spending more money on…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — More than nine hundred people crowded into the Church of the Epiphany, an Episcopal church in Washington, DC. They had gathered to hear Rev. William…
By Julianne Malveaux — Mary Turner was lynched on May 19. 1918 because she dared raise her voice. Her husband, Hayes Turner, was among 13 people lynched in two weeks in and around Valdosta, Georgia. The lynchings took place because one brutal white man, who was known to abuse workers so severely that he was only able to attract workers by getting them through the convict labor system, beat the…