Justice

A collection of 28 posts

Reparations

Reparations Ever?

The National Urban League details some of the current efforts underway to achieve long overdue justice for Americans of African descent.

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The Supreme Justice

In Becoming Thurgood on PBS, we meet the Black man beyond the black robe. Watch the full episode here.

SKY IS BLACK

SKY IS BLACK - Episode #63

In this episode, BC and Anton discuss Pan-African books and movies, the African Cup of Nations, and announce their third SKY IS BLACK Person of the Year. Drum roll, please...

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Never Forget: BARRY FARM

A collaboration between The Bertelsmann Foundation and the DC Legacy Project, this documentary about Barry Farm, directed by Sabiyha Prince and Samuel George, is available for viewing online. |

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The SKY IS BLACK Conversation Menu: Agenda 2063.

In Season 2 of SKY IS BLACK, we fix our minds and hearts on the aspriations animating the African Union's Agenda 2063. All things considered, the Africa we want is the Africa we need. We've got this... |

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Silenced No More

Stanford professor, Joel Cabrita, surfaces the suppressed story of South African writer, Regina Twala. From The Guardian / Twala had been a writer, intellectual and anti-colonial political activist of the 1950s and 60s. She was born in South Africa, but after her arrest in 1952 for participating in the non-violent resistance

Events

Reparations How?

Event: February 2, 2023 | The William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice and the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School will discuss. | From the Harvard Kennedy School / Join the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice and the Institute of Politics for a discussion on the legacy of

Our World Weekly

Innocence Lost

Event: January 19, 2023 | Author Tanya Katerí Hernández continues to detail disturbing aspects of the ongoing Black freedom struggle. | Register HERE. Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches Anti-Discrimination Law, Comparative Employment Discrimination, Critical Race Theory, The

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Section 14

The city burned down a community for commercial development. Today, residents in Palm Springs, California make their case for reparations. Now. | From Sonya Singh via The Guardian / Six decades ago, hundreds of people in Palm Springs, California, came home to ashes. Their houses had burned, sometimes with their belongings inside

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The Big Payback

From Co-Directors Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow, the Documentary Follows Alderman Robin Rue Simmons' Fight to Pass the First Government-Funded Reparations Program in Evanston, Illinois, Alongside Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee as She Leads a National Movement To Pass HR 40. |

Events

This Is How We Reconstruct

Virtual Event: December 15, 2022 | From the Mark Twain House and Museum / In  The Third Reconstruction, Peniel E. Joseph offers a new interpretation of our recent history. He draws connections and insights across centuries from America’s first and second Reconstructions, the movements that arose after the Civil War and

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Enough Already

Professor Dorothy Roberts details a particular assault on the African-American family. | Via Slate Magazine / "ASFA (Adoption and Safe Familes Act of 1997) was marketed using racist rhetoric that vilified impoverished Black mothers and demeaned their bonds with their children. Its passage was part of a legislative assault on government

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The 1898 Wilmington Massacre and Coup

Assistant Professor, DJ Polite, and author and journalist, David Zucchino, remind us what happened in North Carolina nearly 125 years ago. From DJ Polite via Black Perspectives / "The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 remains one of the clearest demonstrations of white supremacy and Jim Crow violently erasing the progress and

Events

For Liberation

Virtual Event: December 1, 2022 | From Black Freedom Studies / Featuring the discussants Drs. Kabria Baumgartner, Christopher Bonastia, Michael Hines, and Brian Jones, this Conversation will be moderated by the co-organizers of the Conversations in Black Freedom Studies series, Robyn Spencer and Jeanne Theoharis.  - REGISTER HERE Conversations in Black Freedom

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The Utopia Project

Event: November 6, 2022 | From the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum / Through a series of experiential activities, visitors will first learn to tap into the issues they care about and then envision their own version of a utopia in an immersive “Dream Space.” Here, visitors will be asked to imagine, with all

Events

Ready or Not.

Virtual Event: October 20, 2022 | From Harvard/ Join the Institute of Politics and Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project at the Ash Center for a virtual JFK Jr. Forum discussion with Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Professor Melissa Harris-Perry.    - Register HERE. This discussion serves as a kickoff keynote for IARA&

SKY IS BLACK

Black Tech Street.

Tyrance Billingsley wants to take the Tulsa renaissance to the next level. From Black Enterprise/ Tyrance Billingsley II, a native Black Tulsan entrepreneur, founded the Black Tech Street national initiative and tech hub in 2021 to mobilize resources and cultivate an economy designed by, and for, black entrepreneurs. His direct

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Black Women Are Still Being Paid Less. Come On Now.

Can't we just pratice equity? Black Enterprise reports. | Study Shows Black Women Still Paid the Least as Gender Pay Gap ClosesA recent study reveals that Black women are paid less in comparison to white men and Asian women even as they advance in their careers.Black EnterpriseStacy Jackson

Education

Time to Learn

Event: October 17, 2022 | Ashley Farmer will discuss Queen Mother Audley Moore (1898–1997), one of the most influential activists and thinkers of the 20th century. Moore was an important progenitor of Black Nationalist thought and activism. Ashley Farmer is an associate professor in the Departments of History and African

Events

Freedom to Nashville

Keisha Blain, author of "Until I Am Free," travels to Nashville to discuss the life and legacy of the great Fannie Lou Hamer.  Event: October 25, 2022 | I’m looking forward to having esteemed author, @KeishaBlain in Nashville later this month to talk about her book on the

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Going Home

See all 29 of the items being returned by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art to Nigeria. As discussed on SKY IS BLACK, repatriating the so-called Benin Bronzes is absolutely the right thing to do. | The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art transferred ownership of 29 Benin bronzes

SKY IS BLACK

SKY IS BLACK - Episode #38

Anton and BC welcome Asmelash Teka Hadgu, the Co-Founder and CTO of Lesan.ai, a translation platform bringing vernacular digital content to Ethiopian and Eritrean language speakers. THIS brings us closer to Wakanda… ሰማይ ጸሊም = "SKY IS BLACK" in Tigrinya ስካይ ኢዝ ብላክ = A transliteration of SKY IS

Events

Freedom Is a Place

A Celebration of Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Date: November 11, 2022. | This event is presented by The Antipode Foundation and the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen’s University, and is organized by Katherine McKittrick, Nik Theodore, and Kendall Witaszek.

SKY IS BLACK

ONE Earth. Only ONE.

This is a huge moment for everyone who cares about our planet. A new film, The Letter, featuring youth activist @ridhimapandey7 shares a powerful story of new hope for our planet. Watch the film on YouTube Originals now! https://t.co/qlLvSXrACz — Vanessa Nakate (@vanessa_vash) October 5, 2022

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Black Afterlives Matter, Too

A battle for the preservation of Black cemetaries is now being waged. | Slavery descendants fight to memorialize a cemetery in MarylandDevelopment has forced many historically Black communities around the country to uproot and disperse. Cemeteries often remain the only proof that those communities existed.NPRMarisa Peñaloza “Slavery too is mostly