Historic Salt Lake council majority LGBTQ, people of color
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City has sworn in a historic new city council where the majority of members identify as LGBTQ, and most are people of color.…
Reparations are main topic of panel discussion at MLK event
Should descendants of enslaved African Americans receive reparations? What could those reparations look like? Earl Lewis A panel will tackle those questions from 12:30-2 p.m. Jan. 17 during the online…
Third-party intermediary to disperse first reparations funds
Evanston’s Reparations Committee approved nonprofit group Community Partners for Affordable Housing to distribute funds to the first 16 recipients of the Restorative Housing Program at a Thursday meeting. Under the…
‘If not us, then who?’: inside the landmark push for reparations for Black Californians
Dawn Basciano’s ancestors arrived five generations ago in Coloma, California, as enslaved people, forced to leave behind an infant son enslaved to another family in Missouri. Those ancestors, Nancy and Peter…
Canada approved reparations – the US can be next
The American case for reparations can draw encouragement and examples from Canada. The federal government just set aside a huge sum – $40bn – to compensate the victims and relatives…
Elorza proposes millions for housing, reparations in new COVID-relief fund spending plan
PROVIDENCE — Mayor Jorge Elorza has unveiled a proposal for spending more than $123 million in American Rescue Plan Act money, aiming to allocate large amounts on housing, reparations and replacement…
Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah Urges Us Not to Forget the Past
When Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prizein Literature last October, becoming the first Black writer to win the award since Toni Morrison in 1993, his books shot to the top…
Violent Crime in the U.S. Is Surging. But We Know What to Do About It
ust before Thanksgiving in Philadelphia, dozens of residents gathered on a basketball court in the city’s Lawncrest section to mourn the loss of Jessica Covington. Thirty-two years old and seven months…
Pedro Almodóvar Presents a Beguiling Thriller About Motherhood
Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit play two new mothers from very different backgrounds in the Spanish director’s latest study in female interiority. The title Parallel Mothers could apply to a number of…
The Legendary Maya Angelou Becomes The First Black Woman Featured On A US Quarter
On Monday, the US Mint announced that a new quarter featuring the iconic poet, memoirist and civil rights activist Maya Angelou has begun shipping as part of the American Women…
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