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She, The People: Dara Cooper On Food Redlining, Reparations, And Freeing The Land
Reparations in the United States for descendants of enslaved Africans must include repairing the structural devastation that food redlining has caused in Black communities. For Black people, Black southerners in particular, land is sacred and our...
Ensley Alive launches “Branding Ensley”
Birmingham, AL…Ensley stakeholders launch initiative to honor Ensley jazz greats while enticing patrons to visit downtown Ensley retailers. Branding Ensley is an initiative developed by Bettina Byrd-Giles, CEO of The Bethesda Life Center, Inc....
Dr. Brian Smedley Co-writes Article Highlighting the Long Term effects of Housing Discrimination
The Effects of Housing Discrimination on Health Can Reverberate for Decades By Brian Smedley and Rachel A. Davis Last year, reporters at the Center for Investigative Reporting combed through 31 million mortgage lending records in dozens of...
Court Upholds North Dakota Law Stripping Voting Rights From Native Americans
By Imani Gandy, Rewire.News The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a law that strips nearly 10 percent of all voting-age Native Americans living in North Dakota of their right to vote. The case is as much about local...
Bay Area Gentrification Displacing Communities of Color
By Kiley Russell - Bay City News Foundation Alma Blackwell was born and raised in West Oakland but after years of intense gentrification followed by waves of displacement, she barely recognizes her old neighborhood. “There’s almost no one...
Call for Applications: The 2020 RWJF Culture of Health Prize CFA is Open!
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is officially accepting applications for the 2020 RWJF Culture of Health Prize. An annual award, the RWJF Culture of Health Prize elevates and honors communities that are at the forefront of advancing...
Like Truman’s Military Desegregation Order, Leadership Against Racism Starts at the Top
By John R. Allen Inspiration around issues of race and civility in America is in short supply. Racist, xenophobic language coming from social media platforms to the White House has corroded public discourse and widened the longstanding divides in...
Why the UN is Investigating Extreme Poverty … in America, the World’s Richest Nation
By Ed Pilkington The United Nations monitor on extreme poverty and human rights has embarked on a coast-to-coast tour of the US to hold the world’s richest nation – and its president – to account for the hardships endured by America’s...
White America is Quietly Self-Segregating
By Alvin Chang (Read...
Dr. Gail Christopher Addresses Helsinki Commission (Oral Testimony)
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission) BRIEFING ON TRUTH, RECONCILIATION, & HEALING - Toward a Unified Future (PDF Version) Thursday, July 18, 2019 Testimony by Gail C. Christopher Chairman Hastings,...