AvatarUtopiayesFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow Haiti Destroyed Slavery and Led the Way to Freedom throughout the Atlantic World - Public Bookspublicbooks.org - Marlene L. DautThe first land to be colonized in the Americas was Haiti. Europeans first enslaved native Americans and captive Africans there, too. But the first …
AvatarUtopiayesFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoUN Report Urges End to Forced US Prison Labor—a 'Contemporary Form of Slavery'commondreams.org - Brett WilkinsA report published Thursday by United Nations human rights experts condemns systemic racism in the U.S. criminal justice system and policing, while …
AvatarUtopiayesAvatarAvatarClaudine Gay Inaugurated As Harvard University’s First Black PresidentEssence - By Rayna Reid RayfordGay is the 30th president of the prestigious Ivy League school, and only the second woman to hold this position. Even though she officially started …
AvatarUtopiayesAvatarAvatarCoco's TimeSubstack - Christopher ClareyGauff's US Open breakthrough The Gauffs and their only daughter have long dreamed big. When Coco was 4 years old, she told her father she wanted to be …
AvatarUtopiayesFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoGauff fulfils destiny to become a Grand Slam championausopen.com - Matt TrollopeCoco Gauff (L) embraces Aryna Sabalenka after winning their 2023 US Open women's singles final. [Getty Images] US Open champion: The moment of victory …
AvatarUtopiayesAvatarAvatarDevelopers have Black families fighting to maintain property and historyAssociated Press - By JAMES POLLARDPHILLIPS COMMUNITY, S.C. (AP) — The Rev. Elijah Smalls Jr. once grew okra, butter beans and other vegetables in the neighborhood where his family has lived near the South Carolina coast since not long after the Civil War. That was before new half-a-million-dollar homes in a nearby subdivision …
AvatarUtopiayesAvatarAvatarHouse Democrat presses big banks on the status of over $32 billion in racial equity pledgesNBC News - By J.J. McCorveyRep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts sent letters to JPMorgan and four other major lenders asking for more details about the programs they rolled out after George Floyd’s murder. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is calling on five major U.S. banks to provide updates on the racial equity pledges they …
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AvatarUtopiayesAvatarAvatarLargest School District in Texas Eliminates Libraries, Converts Them to Disciplinary CentersJezebel - Kylie CheungThe largest public school district in the state of Texas is converting libraries in 28 schools into disciplinary centers and eliminating school …
AvatarUtopiayesFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWounded Knee's Radical Legacy - Boston Reviewbostonreview.netWounded Knee's Radical Legacy - Boston Review Fifty years ago, the American Indian Movement occupied the site of a historic massacre. They won real …
AvatarUtopiayesAvatarAvatarOpinion | A Federal Judge Asks: Does the Supreme Court Realize How Bad It Smells?verified_publisherThe New York Times - Michael PonsorWhat has gone wrong with the Supreme Court’s sense of smell? I joined the federal bench in 1984, some years before any of the justices currently on the Supreme Court. Throughout my career, I have been bound and guided by a written code of conduct, backed by a committee of colleagues I can call on …
AvatarUtopiayesFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThe Next Phase of the Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors’ Legal Battlecapitalbnews.org - Brandon TensleyThe three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre refuse to stop fighting for restitution, even after a Tulsa County District Court judge …