A fairer share: Black farming projects look to recoup historical US land losses
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how rural and urban growers of colour are trying to get a fairer share of US farmland…
Liberia kicks off bicentennial celebrating arrival of Black Americans
Monrovia, Liberia Reuters President George Weah on Monday called on Liberians to embrace unity and reconciliation as he launched year-long celebrations of the bicentennial of the arrival of the first free Black Americans in 1822. The former slaves arrived in Providence Island, now the capital Monrovia, in 1822, as part of a mission by the […]
The Interview: Lisa Sharon Harper and her new book ‘Fortune’
KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, speaks with Lisa Sharon Harper about her new book, ‘Fortune’…
‘Digital divide’ hits rural Black Americans hardest
Los Angles/Washington DC Thomson Reuters Foundation The lack of internet access in the United States is particularly pronounced in rural, southern areas with higher Black populations, researchers said this week amid a battle in Congress over how to close the digital divide. African Americans across rural counties in 10 mostly southern states were nearly twice as […]
Essay: The case for reparations has been made all the more clear by COVID-19
In an article first published on Religion News Service, KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS, dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and canon theologian at Washington National Cathedral, says the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black lives is perhaps the strongest case for reparations…
Postcards: Black American families strive to build a town free from racism
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a bid to create a new community in central Georgia called Freedom…
Sight-Seeing: Of terror and testimonies – living through the Derek Chauvin trial
DANTÉ STEWART, in an article which comes via Religion News Service, reflects on the trial that this week has led to a guilty verdict for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin over the death of George Floyd…
Sight-Seeing: Black history can’t be told without the Bible
Rev NICOLE MARTIN, vice president of church engagement and executive director of trauma healing at American Bible Society, says the Bible has been a source of “healing, hope and refuge from danger” for Black Americans…
This Life: Amanda Gorman, my grandma and the Black tears we cried
US writer and student DANTÉ STEWART, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reflects on how his grandmother saw this week’s US presidential inauguration…
US election – Young Black Americans may stumble in move to ballot boxes from street protests
New York City, US Thomson Reuters Foundation First-time voter Rosie Lebron has been protesting in the streets of New York City to end racial injustice, following in the footsteps of her great-grandmother who marched 60 years ago. “My great-grandmother, she protested during the civil rights movement. She’s like ‘Why is my baby still doing this?’” […]