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How a congregation came to pay reparations

What comes after the book studies? For decades, members at Assembly Mennonite Church in Goshen, Ind., did what congregations do to be informed participants in God’s liberating justice. We heard sermons, clarified our values, became politically engag...

The failure to track race and other data on stillbirths undermines prevention efforts

French leftist coalition prevails over far-right, anti-immigrant forces in national election shocker

Wash U researchers say child savings accounts can be used to deliver reparations

As reparations task forces continue studying how to repay African Americans for past racist harms, Washington University researchers say there are tested policy models that can deliver mass repayment. In the June issue of the Russell Sage Foundation...

California’s $25 Health Care Hourly Wage Relies on Federal Boost, State Worker Exemption

By Don Thompson | KFF Health News SACRAMENTO — California’s nation-leading $25 minimum wage for health workers will rely on a significant boost in federal funding and exempt thousands of state employees under an agreement that is expected to be a...

‘What’s Going On?’ The Fate of Art and Soul in Florida

By Fedrick C. Ingram | Word In Black (WIB) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis isn’t interested in being a leader. Leaders listen to the people, even those they don’t agree with, in order to foster democracy and empathy for the communities they’...

Majority of Poles want government to seek war reparations from Germany

A large majority of people in Poland want their country to seek reparations from Germany for the Second World War, a new poll has found. The findings, which echo the results of previous surveys, come days after Prime Minister Donald Tusk indicated, f...

Black farmers’ association calls for Tractor Supply CEO’s resignation after company cuts DEI efforts

By Wyatte Grantham-Philips | The Associated Press FILE – A Tractor Supply Company store sign is seen, Feb. 2, 2023, in Pittsburgh. The National Black Farmers Association is calling on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO to step down, days af...

Arthur Crudup wrote the song that became Elvis’ first hit. He barely got paid

By Ben Finley | The Associated Press FRANKTOWN, Va. (AP) — Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup helped invent rock ‘n’ roll. His 1946 song “That’s All Right,” an easygoing shrug to a lover, would become the first single Elvis Presley ever released. Rod Ste...

New midsize music venue from Another Planet Entertainment coming to Sacramento

By Lisa Thibodeau | Solving Sacramento Channel 24 is a planned 2,150-person capacity venue, projected to open in early 2025 in Sacramento. (Digital rendering courtesy Another Planet Entertainment) Sacramento is gaining a new live music venue c...

Poland: can Tusk waive reparations?

Poland’s renunciation of war reparations in 1953 has no validity, Interia argues: “It was forced by the Soviet authorities, and Poland was not a sovereign state at that time. Moreover, the renunciation was supposed to be a gesture of friends...

Migrants exploited: Leader sentenced, pays ‘significant’ reparations

A Bay of Plenty man who exploited multiple migrants and attempted to pervert the course of justice has been sentenced to 12 months home detention and ordered to pay his victims $80,000 in reparations. Jafar Kurisi, 60, was charged in late 2020 after...

How One Group Fights For Locally Grown Reparations

by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman July 7, 2024 The African American Redress Network consists of lawyers, historians, and experts dedicated to racial justice. As conversations su...

What could reparations look like in California?

ADRIAN FLORIDO, HOST: In 2020, California’s legislature did something no state has ever done. It created a task force to look at the legacy of slavery in the U.S. and at the history of racism in California and how those histories have harmed th...