New Hampshire Archives - Institute of the Black World 21st Century

Tireless activism and the latest region to go coal-free – With the end of the coal era, it just got easier to breathe in New England.

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

By Ben Jealous — Jerry Curran has been organizing to retire the Merrimack Station coal power plant in Bow, New Hampshire for 17 years. He is one of many local…

The Establishment Now Has Three Horses in the Race — and None Won New Hampshire

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

Turns out “socialist” isn’t such a bad word anymore. By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout — Keene, New Hampshire — On Tuesday night, Bernie Sanders took another step toward securing the Democratic nomination…

New Hampshire’s white liberals grapple with reparations

By IBW21News & Current Affairs, Reparations

By Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post — CONCORD, N.H. — Over the past two years, a series of racist incidents has shaken New Hampshire, a state that’s nearly 95 percent white. A biracial 8-year-old was pushed off a picnic table with a rope around his neck in Claremont, an assault authorities are investigating as a hate crime. Teens sang “Let’s kill all the blacks” during a high school history class in Dover. A burned Confederate flag was…