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Deferred Justice for the Tulsa Race Massacre
Black and white photo of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Buildings with billowing gray smoke coming out from the top.

Deferred Justice for the Tulsa Race Massacre

The last remaining survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre seek reparations as the city continues to skirt justice.

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Why Do Banks Receive Bailouts Over Other Financial Issues?
Digital illustration of a stack of money exchange between two disembodied hands.

Why Do Banks Receive Bailouts Over Other Financial Issues?

With 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.

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The Incarceration, Not Internment, of Japanese Americans
A concrete monument in the desert with Japanese Kanji characters vertically etched in stone, reads, “Soul Consoling Tower."

The Incarceration, Not Internment, of Japanese Americans

Often miscategorized as internment, the incarceration of Japanese Americans in 1942 is yet another instance of American cruelty in action.

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Movement on the Fight for Reparations
A canopy of trees line the walkway towards the main house on a plantation.

Movement on the Fight for Reparations

Cities and states are developing unprecedented reparations initiatives to address economic inequities and historical injustice against Black people.

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Archbishop Tutu’s Legacy and the Path Towards Racial Healing
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Archbishop Tutu’s Legacy and the Path Towards Racial Healing

Civil Rghts champion Archbishop Tutu’s support for truth and reconciliation initiatives helped the people of South Africa begin healing from apartheid.

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6 Actionable Ways to Celebrate Black History Month
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for African Americans' civil and economic rights.

6 Actionable Ways to Celebrate Black History Month

Black 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.

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Advocate for reparations for the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors.

In 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.

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Reverse racist land grabs.

Reverse racist land grabs.

In 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.

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Support Black farmers.
Black cotton farming family from the 1890s

Support Black farmers.

Black farmers lost 870,000 farms in the past 60 years. Now, Black farmers advocate for agricultural education in their communities.

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