My Family’s Kansas City Story

By Sarah Davis, Strong Towns

And, maybe, the South Town Fork Creek neighborhood will eventually be seen as more of a destination, rather than somewhere you speed past on your way to and from downtown.

Reparations would shake up American capitalism – and that’s a good thing

By Aaron White, Open Democracy

Paying compensation to the descendants of slaves would not just right a historic wrong, it would transform the US economy for the better

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 31 Michelle Singletary

By Vicki Robin, Michelle Singletary, Resilience.org

Michelle Singletary is an author and award-winning personal finance columnist. She writes the nationally syndicated personal finance column “The Color of Money”, which appears in The Washington Post. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”

Revisiting the Commons

By Derrick Gentry, The Owl Light News

As more and more of us are turned on to the idea of small-scale self-reliance and seek to build resilient local communities, one of the most serious challenges we face is basic access to affordable land.

Racism in finance has sparked a grassroots response. Meet the Boston Ujima Project.

By Tina Jenkins Bell, Shareable

Economic racism is a real issue that denies people the opportunity to support themselves and their families, start businesses, or build financial legacies — such as homeownership — that pass from one generation to the next.

Structural violence and the automobile

By Owen Watson, Uneven Earth

The car remains a weapon of choice against anti-racist protestors as the uprisings against systematic racism ignited by the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor stretch into their fourth month.

Truth and Redistribution

By Naomi Zewde, Darrick Hamilton, YES! magazine

Economic justice cannot take root or flourish when the wealth, power, resources, news media, book publishers, educational curricula, technological surveillance, prisons, business capital, and all of our existing institutions are owned or controlled by a handful of plutocrats.

The Hundred Years’ War for Safe Streets

By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance

A transportation revolution must clearly be a big component of a Green New Deal. For anyone interested in exploring the many aspects of mobility justice, Right of Way is a must-read.

Repaying the Debt owed Black People Requires a Democratic and Reparative Economy

By Ron Daniels, Ronald Galvin, Open Democracy

The more important conversation is not how much must be paid, but rather how much must change. To be frank, all of it ultimately has to change. In other words, the entire system that continues to exert violence against and extract labor and blood from Black lives and communities must go.

Diversity and Farming in Bristol

By Bristol Food Producers Staff, Bristol Food Producers

In the UK, farming is the least diverse profession, with 98.6% of farm managers and holders being white British. The events of the last few months have brought these conversations to the forefront and we have realised we need to act now if this is going to change.

Africa Says, “I Can’t Breathe”: An African Civil Society Perspective on Systemic Racism

By Million Belay, Common Dreams

A cohort of actors including philanthrocapitalists, aid agencies, governments, academic institutions, and embassies are all working to make this narrative a reality. They talk about transforming African agriculture but what they are doing is creating a market for themselves cleverly couched in a nice sounding language.

Land Loss has Plagued Black America since Emancipation – Is it Time to Look Again at ‘Black Commons’ and Collective Ownership?

By Julian Agyeman, Kofi Boone, The Conversation

Underlying the recent unrest sweeping U.S. cities over police brutality is a fundamental inequity in wealth, land and power that has circumscribed black lives since the end of slavery in the U.S.