The last remaining survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre seek reparations as the city continues to skirt justice.
read moreWith the current political and economic system, special measures to protect financial markets are seen as urgent over efforts to support the survival of everyday people.
read moreOften miscategorized as internment, the incarceration of Japanese Americans in 1942 is yet another instance of American cruelty in action.
read moreCities and states are developing unprecedented reparations initiatives to address economic inequities and historical injustice against Black people.
read moreCivil Rghts champion Archbishop Tutu’s support for truth and reconciliation initiatives helped the people of South Africa begin healing from apartheid.
read moreBlack History Month is more than reading about the Black achievements, stories, people, and movements that shaped the U.S. It’s essential to take these readings and teachings and put them into action.
read moreIn 1921, a white mob rampaged through Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street, burning, killing, and looting until they destroyed one of the few contemporary centers of Black wealth in the United States. This May, after a century, the Tulsa City Council finally acknowledged the horrifying massacre and announced it would investigate paying reparations to Tulsa’s Black citizens. We have five days to pressure Tulsa City Council to adopt a reparations resolution that would go beyond mere acknowledgement and begin to make right past harm, discrimination, and violence that continue to affect Black communities.
read moreIn April, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to make amends for a massive land grab rooted in white supremacy, though this remedy came almost a century too late (MSN). In the early twentieth century, Charles and Willa Bruce opened a Manhattan Beach resort that offered other Black families the opportunity to vacation under the Southern California sun. The white residents of Manhattan Beach were not pleased.
read moreBlack farmers lost 870,000 farms in the past 60 years. Now, Black farmers advocate for agricultural education in their communities.
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