Decades ago, civil rights leader Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., who now serves a president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, coined the term “environmental racism.” It not only proved a true term, but it also linked several eras to a present day that still harkens back to centuries of demeaning and demoralization of Black Americans since the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade 500 years ago.
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Thousands of children are imprisoned across Africa. They need justice | The Guardian
Young people are all but invisible in the justice system, facing ill treatment at the hands of those who should be protecting them.
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Exploited and Extorted, 30 Africans Drown While Trying to Return Home From Yemen | The New York Times
The mass drowning, in the Gulf of Aden, which separates war-ravaged Yemen from the destitute Horn of Africa, punctuated the lethal hazards facing migrants and refugees in an especially insecure part of the world.
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Black Lives Matter – Except Biram Dah Ould Abeid’s
Deafening silence greets Mauritanian anti-slavery activist’s three-year prison sentence.
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EJI Announces Plans to Build a Museum and National Lynching Memorial
The Equal Justice Initiative plans to build a national memorial to victims of lynching and open a museum that explores African American history from enslavement to mass incarceration. Both the museum and memorial will open in Montgomery, Alabama, in 2017.
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Reparations Site Asks People to ‘Offset Your Privilege’ with Acts of Kindness | The Guardian
The project by a Seattle-based artist lets strangers help a person of color with anything from childcare to taxes, and has attracted both praise and criticism.
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Welcome to Africatown: The Alabama Town Founded by the Last African Slaves
Cudjoe Lewis and others fought to return to Africa, but eventually had to settle for recreating Africa here.
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