History Has a Race Problem, and It’s Existential
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By Allison Miller —
History, as a discipline, has a race problem. White people dominate the study of history, as...
White Nationalists Are Running the White House
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The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch report on the leaked emails of Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller shows...
Where Civility Is a Motto, a School Integration Fight Turns Bitter
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Protesters outside the Howard County Board of Education building in Ellicott City, Md., last month. Photo by Andrew Mangum...
Black millennials who refuse to vote are falling for a political fraud
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Donald Trump cynically thanked black voters for staying away from the polls in 2016, when black voter turnout declined...
Ghana, Barbados sign agreement to establish sister Port relationship
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On Friday, November 15, 2019, Ghana and Barbados signed an agreement to establish a sister-port relationship between the Tema...
New Jersey considers task force to look into reparations for slavery
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New Jersey’s African American lawmakers want to start studying how the state could make reparations...
Focusing on Freedom with Harriet Tubman:Enduring Advice on Relentless Resistance
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
This is a reminder, prelude and promise of a coming review on the movie “Harriet”....
A Slave Rebellion Rises Again
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Some 500 enslaved people revolted in Louisiana but were largely ignored by history. Two centuries later, an ambitious re-enactment...
Researching, Teaching, and Embodying the Black Diaspora: An Introduction
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By Charisse Burden-Stelly and Crystal Moten, Black Perspectives —
Part I: Studying the Black Diaspora, Then and Now
From May 22-24,...
Higher Ed Institutions Wrestle With Reparations and Repentance
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By Sara Weissman, Diverse —
Georgetown University recently announced that it would fundraise $400,000 a year to benefit the descendants...
Five Benineses, Alumni of the UAC Startup Valley, among the Top 20 RUFORUM Young...
Global Diaspora News (USA), November 15, 2019.Following a call for the African Entrepreneurs Competition targeting youth in West Africa to promote and catalyze business...
PhD Candidate Examines the Politics of Slavery Reparations
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Lizotte’s dissertation, entitled “Rethinking Reparations: A Critical Theory of Black Repair,” argued that current efforts for reparations that focus...
McConnell’s African American Victory Sounds Another Warning Bell
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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, The Hutchinson Report —
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave one of the biggest hugs I...
The Stunning Achievement of Kasi Lemmons’s “Harriet”
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By Richard Brody, The New Yorker —
A common failure of movies, especially historical ones, is that they don’t open...
The Enduring Battle to Diversify Historical Reenactment
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White history is still normalized. Non-white history is seen as provocative.
By Nick Martin, The New Republic –
Imagine, for a...
Bolivia coup led by Christian fascist paramilitary leader and millionaire – with foreign support
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Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz...
How Reparations to Descendants of Slavery Can Heal a Nation
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To truly understand the debt this country owes to Black people is to be liberated from the bondage of...
Diocese of NY establishes reparations fund, adopts anti-slavery resolutions from 1860
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Wayne Kempton, archivist and historiographer for the Diocese of New York, displays the journal of the 1860 diocesan convention....
Let’s Suspend the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
Even as our legislators grapple with impeachment, they are also charged to pass a...
Notes on Lynching, Lying and Seeking Justice
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
Pushing back the thick fog and fumes of the putrid propaganda of White supremacist triumphalism,...
Ambassador David Comissiong’s most recent Address on Reparations
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Address by Ambassador David Comissiong to the West and Central Africa Conference on the United Nations International Decade for...
Foreign prime minister demands slavery reparations from Harvard
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Says reparation is compensation, not a gift.
By Jeremiah Poff, The College Fix —
The prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda...
University at Buffalo students weigh in on reparations for slavery
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BSU and CSA presented videos by Marianne Williamson and Dr. Umar Johnson speaking about reparations. The reparations discussion was...
St Vincent PM urges Caricom to speed up reparation claims
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St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves has urged Caricom leaders to raise the issue of reparations for indigenous peoples and...
