Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RprTU0hXY Rare home movie footage shot in Poland in 1938 becomes a priceless historical artifact, documenting people and places obliterated by the Holocaust.
‘Back to the drawing board’: Iowa City mayor suggests dismantling the city’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
A meeting between Iowa City's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the city's city council took a surprise turn — and became heated — Tuesday when Iowa City Mayor Bruce Teague suggested…
Louisville committee starts debating plan to encourage reparation payments
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- While his church may have a majority-white congregation in the middle of a majority-white Louisville neighborhood, Jason Crosby, the white minister of preaching at Crescent Hill…
Reparation Programs: How Do Cannabis Taxes Do Public Good?
An increased number of states legalize cannabis each year, leaving activists, legislators, and industry members grappling with how to shape the fledgling industry. Many are worried about seeing a homogenous,…
Asheville announces hiring of reparations project manager
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The city of Asheville is taking a big step forward in the reparations process. City leaders announced they have hired a project manager at Tuesday night’s city…
‘Concrete change’ or a ‘Trojan horse’? Minneapolis to vote on replacing police with public safety department.
Minneapolis is again considering sweeping changes to the city’s police department more than a year after the failed push to disband the department in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.…
States look to erase racial covenants from housing deeds
Fine print can include clauses barring minority ownership It’s 2021, but the fine print in some housing deeds still reflects an ugly time when minority homeownership was either explicitly or…
They Faced Racial Bias In Military Discipline. That Can Impact National Security
If Army veteran Crystal Ellington had known about the disparity between white service members and service members of color in military discipline, the former special operations Black Hawk helicopter mechanic…
Truth and Justification: On the Cruelties Against Indigenous People
Five centuries on, the Doctrine of Christian Discovery is still being used—underpinning all Indian land law in this nation and across much of the globe. “Kill the Indian, save the…
US Indigenous boarding school review prompts calls for trauma support
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some members of Congress want to ensure that protections are put in place to address ongoing trauma as more information comes to light about the troubled…