Only half of Black seniors were approved for home repair/refinance loans.

Chicago’s legacy of segregation + redlining influences access to lending, harming Black seniors who want to pass on generational wealth + age in place.

✍️ Investigative Project on Race and Equity: buff.ly/3W5d6Qi

My father did not dream of a 'colorblind' society. He dreamed of a #WorldHouse where the terrors of white supremacy, colonialism, & imperialism are eradicated. And of a #BelovedCommunity where the triple evils are not horrifying blights against humanity.

Ghanaian Author Kwame Dawes Honored as the Poet Laureate of Jamaica
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Over the past five years, many confederate monuments have been brought down because of racial justice organizing and activism. Use this link to support that effort - ow.ly/Z0ei50RlwF1

In 2019, Akua Page went to a juvenile incarceration facility in South Carolina to teach about the Gullah Geechee language, telling them 'y’all are bilingual'

Educators are keeping language of enslaved Africans alive at Harvard, U of S. Carolina and more
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Jessica (J.A.M.) Aiwuyor 💫 Slave revolts were also becoming frequent and expensive to repress. The amount of resources needed to keep the growing populations enslaved simply unfeasible if not taxing to their economy.

To act like they abolished slavery out the kindness of their hearts is disingenuous

I struck a nerve with this one.

This panel was GOOD. Michael Harriot still has me stuck with the idea that we don't have to go back to slavery to make the case for reparations. In recent history, Black people paid taxes but were excluded from taking advantage of what those taxes paid for (schools, parks, etc.)

‘I Gullah Geechee, too’: the educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive theguardian.com/news/2024/apr/… The Guardian

They’ve been waiting for the opportunity to do this.

This country is in bad shape.

The Grassroots Reparations Campaign of The Truth Telling Project invites you to join the 5th Sacred Reparative Season from June 19 - August 31. E Register for Teach-In's on April 21st and 28th to learn more! ow.ly/Lm8a50RiELr

Monk v. United States becomes one of few federal reparations cases to survive a motion to dismiss in American history!

This legal case is the strategic vision of @blackvetproject, @yalelawsch and the National Veterans Council for Legal Redress.

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EMANCIPATION DAY
On August 6, 1861, the 37th Congress created a Metropolitan Police District of the District of Columbia later known as MPD, a year before 'Emancipation Day'.

They made sure to formalize slave patrols before the Compensated Emancipation Act was signed April 16,

It's #NationalLibrarianDay . Shoutout to all those ppl who help educate their community members and keep them enlightened by promoting literacy, teaching research skills, and providing access to information

“Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone's head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.”– Amilcar Cabral

Tanzania doesn’t get criticised enough for being anti Indigenous. The displacement of the Maasai from their traditional homelands in the name of conservation speaks directly to this.