Wrought iron process that drove British industrial revolution success and colonialism was appropriated from black metallurgists, historical records now suggest.
Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the lesser known brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.
A city-appointed reparations committee is also considering guaranteed annual incomes, wiping out personal debt and tax burdens, and homes for just $1 a family.
During the colonial era, Britain routinely committed ethnic cleansing and applied genocidal policies in Kenya. It is time Britain apologized and paid reparations to millions of Kenyans who suffered under British rule.
The Case for a $20/Hour Minimum Wage. The Beat, It Travels: Reggaeton. Boebert and Hannity Clash, Republicans Turn On Trump. How Physicists Created a Holographic Wormhole. What New Zealand Can Teach Us About Reparations.
I am no longer willing to endorse a cultural norm whereby artists & artist-educators passively participate-in, and benefit-from institutions born and bolstered through the justification..or practice of exploiting and destroying Black and Native life
A conversation with the historian about the 20th-anniversary of his seminal book Freedom Dreams, how the meaning of freedom has changed in the intervening years, the reparations debate, and more.
An interview with philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his climate justice-centered framework for ‘remaking the world.’ -- "What I hope is becoming clearer as the climate crisis accelerates is that you actually can’t buy a new ecology.”
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