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Germany Steps In To Save Rosa Parks’ Home From Demolition
Rosa Parks’s home has been moved to Berlin, Germany to avoid demolition.
2020 candidates are finally talking about reparations. It’s time to deepen the debate
This post is in partnership with Scholars for Social Justice By Adom Getachew Over the last two decades, Black organizers and activists around the world have moved reparations from the margins to the center of the political agenda. Organizers with the Movement for Black Lives included reparations in their ambitious Vision for Black Lives Platform […]
Pope Francis summons bishops to discuss sexual abuse after global pressure builds
On Wednesday, Pope Francis summoned bishops to the Vatican City for an emergency meeting to address the worldwide clerical sexual abuse and coverups of the Catholic Church. The meeting comes on the heels of the bombshell Philadelphia investigation uncovering more than 300 clergy members accused by about 1,000 victims.
U.S. plans $280 million military base in Niger as critics say growing presence is destabilizing Africa
The U.S. is expected to build a military base in the West African region of Agades, Niger with total construction and operations costs of $280 million by the end of 2024.
European Union seeks compromise on immigration during emergency session
As previously mentioned in prior reports from Black Youth Project, the European Union is seeking to find a compromise on the issue of human migration among its member countries. On Sunday, the leaders of the European Union met in Brussels, Germany, where they agreed to screen those seeking asylum in Europe at centers in North […]
Time explores the history of a Nazi concentration camp symbol that was repurposed for Pride
As detailed by a recent article in Time, as the Nazi Party came into power in the 1930’s, Hitler saw the existence of gay men in Germany as a threat to his philosophy of a new and purified Germany because they could not bear children. During this period, gay friendly bars and clubs were shut down, […]
We need to acknowledge genocides outside of the European/Jewish Holocaust
by Josie Pickens I first met my good friend—my sister—Hadeel through another mutual friend some years ago. Around that time, I was researching Black American towns destroyed by White vigilantes, and who were often aided by local and national governments. She was a shorty like me, of five feet and a few inches. Wild, […]
A history of white valor: How World War II stories were made to erase violence against Africa
By Lewam Dejen As a Black woman, a diasporic transplant and a student in and of the West, I find myself in a sunken place within traditions of “collective history.” I am nowhere in the stories to which I devoted my everything. Many marginalized people know the struggle of holding tightly onto what decidedly unsees […]
Taking down the Confederacy is more than a symbolic act
The City of New Orleans has scheduled the removal of 4 Confederate statues this week. As someone who grew up in the south, I applaud this effort to rid the Southern landscape of celebratory markers of a dark past that continues to haunt Black and white Americans. This has been a long time coming.
New York Prosecutors Classify White Supremacist Attack An Act of Terrorism
Update 3/28/17: James Harris Jackson is now facing terrorism charges in addition to charges of murder as a hate crime and possession of a weapon. “James Jackson prowled the streets of New York for three days in search of a black person to assassinate in order to launch a campaign of terrorism against our Manhattan […]
Black Girl Magic and the 2016 Olympics: The Water and Oil of Black Athleticism
This article was originally posted at Water Cooler Convos. Over the past two weeks, I have watched Black girl after Black girl medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics. Simone Biles has dominated gymnastics. Simone Manuel did the same in swimming. Michelle Carter won gold in shot put. And, while I felt immense pride watching each […]
How Different are Americans and Europeans, actually?
If someone asked you how Americans and Europeans were different, would you be able to answer them succinctly? Sure, it seems like there are a lot of similarities like our democratic foundations, an alliance that has lasted for more than fifty years, and some of the highest living standards worldwide. What about some of the […]