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Members of the Global Circle reparations delegation that met with the Vatican

Vatican: Moment is Ripe for Serious Consideration of the Harms of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

By IBW21Editors' Choice, Reparations

Leaders of the Global Reparations Movement met at the Vatican to discuss the Catholic Church’s involvement with the Transatlantic Slave Trade and ways in which the church can make amends…

August 1, 2022

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Traditional handmade snowshoes are presented to Pope Francis by Adrian Gunner, from the Assembly of First Nations delegation in the spring when First Nations, Inuit and Métis visited the Vatican to discuss the harm caused by residential schools. The Pope is expected to make another, potentially broader, apology during his visit to Indigenous communities in Canada next week.

The Pope’s “punishing pilgrimage” will focus on reparations, observers say

By IBW21Editors' Choice, Reparations

It’s been 35 years since a papal visit to an Indigenous community in Canada. By Megan Williams, CBC — The last time a pope visited an Indigenous community in Canada was…

July 25, 2022

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Global Reparations Leaders Call Meeting With the Vatican Successful

By IBW21News & Current Affairs, Press Releases / Statements

Collaborative Process for Repair to Begin Vatican City, July 18, 2022 — Under the umbrella of the Global Circle for Reparations and Healing, a delegation of global reparations leaders was received…

July 18, 2022

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Black Lives Matter in Europe: What remains of the movement?

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

By Chemnitz University of Technology — The violent death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, sparked protests across the…

August 11, 2021

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Protestors march down Queen Street in Auckland, New Zealand on Monday, June 1.

Thousands around the world protest George Floyd’s death in global display of solidarity

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

By Zamira Rahim and Rob Picheta, CNN — Protesters have marched in the US for six consecutive nights over the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. Their anger over…

June 3, 2020

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Seventy percent of people of African descent stopped by police in Italy saw that action as racially-motivated.

People of African descent face ‘dire picture’ of racism in EU

By IBW21News & Current Affairs

Almost a third of people of African descent have experienced racial harassment in past five years, survey finds. By Jennifer Rankin, The Guardian — Almost a third of people of African descent polled in a new EU survey say they have experienced racial harassment in the last five years, a report that claims racial discrimination is “commonplace” across 12 European countries reveals. People of African descent face “a dire picture”…

November 30, 2018

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Eluard Luchell McDaniels, Spanish Civil. War Volunteer, Batea, Spain, May 1938. Image Courtesy of the Tamiment Library, New York University

African American Anti-Fascists in the Spanish Civil War

By IBW21Editors' Choice

Anti-fascist volunteer Canute Frankson explained his motivation in a letter home in 1937: “We will build us a new society—a society of peace and plenty. There will be no color line, no jim crow trains, no lynching. That is why, my dear, I’m here in Spain.” By Peter Carroll, BlackPast.org — Approximately 90 African Americans fought in Spain during the civil war that engulfed that nation between 1936 and 1939.…

May 3, 2018

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