By Ericka Taylor, YES! magazine
The growing divide between White wealth and Black wealth is a product of economic systems designed to extract wealth from Black, Indigenous, and other people of color and redirect it to the wealthy, almost uniformly White elite.
By Aaron White, Olúfémi O. Táíwò, Open Democracy
In his new book, ‘Reconsidering Reparations,’ Táíwò maintains that the legacy of colonialism and slavery has led to the current crises of environmental collapse and racial injustice. To build a just world, the scale of the solution must match the problem.
By Rupa Marya, Allen White, Raj Patel, Open Democracy
‘Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice’, a new book by Raj Patel and Rupa Marya, is a tour of the human body that reveals the links between our biology and political and economic injustices such as racism, poverty and colonialism.
By Vicki Robin, Sherri Mitchell, Resilience.org
Sherri Mitchell is the Founding Director of the Land Peace Foundation, an organization dedicated to the global protection of Indigenous land and water rights and the preservation of the Indigenous way of life. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Ray Levy Uyeda, YES! magazine
This whole idea of the ‘land of the free,’ this idea of democracy and triumphalism, is false,” Farmer says. “So both on a symbolic level and a material level, it’s very hard to reckon with, because [making reparations] means undermining white supremacy.”
By Vicki Robin, Toyia Taylor, Resilience.org
Toyia T. Taylor is the Founder and Executive Director of We.APP and is a highly sought-after educator and motivational speaker, who has used her voice to inspire audiences nationally and internationally. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Anna West, YES! magazine
What would Zug Island look like if the land were returned to Indigenous care, with federal funding for its restoration guided by Indigenous stewardship practices?
By Chuck Collins, YES! magazine
Some inheritors of wealth are redirecting this wealth to solve big problems, like climate disruption and racial inequity. And this has created a new ethos among some of the elite and their financial advisers: “wealth minimization.”
By Kevin L. Matthews II, YES! magazine
Juneteenth should be a day of celebration, reflection, and education, but it should also be a reminder that the bill is long overdue.
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
By Ruth Terry, YES! magazine
Transferring wealth to Black-led groups is a particularly potent form of reparations with immediate benefits to communities of color.
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Nicole Horseherder was glad to receive the news of Arizona Public Service Company’s proposed Just and Equitable Transition assistance package to the Navajo Nation.