Can democracy in the United States survive naked dictatorial ambition and Christian nationalism in 2024? The biggest danger today: a vengeful would-be dictator and a cultist Christian nationalist movement that are reaching for absolute power in our country. Please help us to inform, to mobilize and to inspire the forces of multi-racial, radical, inclusive democracy to defeat this threat in 2024.
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.”
The new Unicef goodwill ambassador would like to see reparations from nations most responsible for climate crisis
The only just future for my home is not statehood, but full independence from the United States. But the future of a free Puerto Rico doesn’t need to be utopian, or easy, to be just.
In California, the preliminary report of a governmental task force suggests how the toll of slavery and white supremacy can be assessed—and compensated for.
In 1862, more than 900 enslavers living in the nation’s capital received money compensating them for the immediate emancipation of the more than 3,000 people they enslaved.
The interim report surveys the ongoing and compounding harms experienced by African Americans as a result of slavery and systemic discrimination and includes a set of preliminary recommendations to the CA legislature to remedy those harms.
The gunman seems motivated by a vision of history, pushed by the right, in which American racism never existed and Black people are undeserving takers.
Atlanta is tackling the big, uncomfortable questions no one else would dare— can we resolve systemic racism and reconcile this country’s history with slavery, when some won’t even acknowledge either
In Reconsidering Reparations, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò makes the case for a political project with a global scope.
The dominant and distorted scholarship framed Reconstruction as an illegitimate enterprise that failed to sustain multiracial democracy. For much of the 20th century, this bogus history was used to justify denying Black people full citizenship.
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