Reconstruction
The Hope, Promise And Continued Resistance Encompassed In Juneteenth
Photos: Twitter\YouTube Screenshots Across the inland region this past weekend the community celebrated Juneteenth in a multitude of meaningful ways, from parades to picnics, ...
Man Believed To Be Last Child of Enslaved People, Dies At 90
Photos: Screenshot Daniel R. Smith, 90, passed away this week in Washington. He was one of the last remaining children of enslaved Black Americans, ...
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Announces “40 Acres and a Mule” Economic Justice Plan
[Newark 40 Acres and a Mule Fund] Ras Baraka: “We need to empower our entrepreneurs of color so that they can compete at increasingly ...
Do America’s Public Schools Owe Black People Reparations?
[Reparations for Education] Education Week: “This process of reconciliation and Reparations is essential for understanding contemporary K-12 racial disparities, rebuilding trust, and restructuring an ...
Standing for Black Lives Against Domestic Police Terrorism
[Greenlining Institute ] Gore-Mann: “In the 20th Century, freed Black Americans, who were domestic refugees fleeing state-funded terrorism in the great migration, were then ...
Pressley and Arroyo: Lawmakers must End Qualified Immunity for Police
[Ending Qualified Immunity] Pressley\Arroyo: “Qualified immunity has repeatedly denied accountability for those abused at the hands of the law or recourse for the countless ...
Language of Voter Suppression Crucial in Purging Black Vote
[Voter Suppression] Moss: “The language of vote suppression has played a crucial role since Emancipation placed the issue of suffrage, the suffrage of a ...
Jamaal Bowman: Congress Needs to Give Reparations, Start Third Reconstruction
[Jamaal Bowman\Reparations] Bowman: “Begin the process of healing and reparations, repairing what we have harmed or allowed to continue to harm the country overall, ...
Militarized American Police and How They Got Their Weapons of War
[Police Militarization] The weapons that come to local police departments through the 1033 pipeline are direct from the military and, by extension, the War ...
WNYC STUDIO’S “UNITED STATES OF ANXIETY” PODCAST ANNOUNCES SPECIAL UPCOMING 2020 ELECTION EPISODES STARTING TODAY
[WNYC\”United States of Anxiety] The United States of Anxiety will revisit…history, ask how relevant it is to the current election, and trace today’s political ...
