Black Americans

After a Century of Dispossession, Black Farmers Are Fighting to Get Back to the Land
- A century of land loss has been compounded by escalating real estate prices. Yet the quest to reclaim farmland is gaining momentum as part of the broader reparations movement, which seeks redress for the unpaid debts owed to many Black Americans.
A final chance for the survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre: ‘This is it’
- There are only two people alive who remember firsthand what the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was like. One of them is 109-year-old Viola Ford Fletcher, otherwise known as “Mother Fletcher.”
Healing the ‘Invisible Ache’ behind the suicide crisis among Black men and boys
- In a new book, The Invisible Ache, Vance and psychologist Robin L. Smith explore the trauma unique to Black men and boys, and address what they see as an urgent need to change the conversation about mental health.
Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Event @ King Center - 2024
Black Lawmakers Make Their Case for Reparations in Georgia
- The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus is hosting panel discussions Thursday in support of a study on the impact of slavery and Jim Crow.
Black History Celebrated: Wyoming Black 14 remembered at Atlanta’s College Football Hall of Fame
- The College Football Hall of Fame is celebrating a story of one of the most powerful combinations in American history — sports and civil rights. The Wyoming Black 14 were honored with their own display for Black History Month.
New Orleans OperaCréole restores lost works of Black composers
- New Orleans’ forgotten history of opera music is being brought back to life after centuries of neglect through the discovery of lost works of local composers of color.
The Colorblindness Campaign
- The death of affirmative action marks the culmination of a radical 50-year strategy to subvert the goal of colorblindness put forth by civil rights activists, by transforming it into a means of undermining racial justice efforts in a way that will threaten our multiracial democracy.
What Became of The Slaves on a Georgia Plantation
- In March of 1857, the largest sale of human beings in the history in the United States took place at a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia. During the two days of the sale, raindrops fell unceasingly on the racetrack. It was almost as though the heavens were crying. So, too, fell teardrops from many of the 436 men, women, and children who were auctioned off during the two days.

Atlanta

Interative Land Map
- Between 1776 and 1887, The United States seized over 1.5 Billion acres from America's indigenous people by treaty and executive order. Explore how in this interactive map of every Native American land cession during that period
GA Bird Group Changes Name amid controversy over Audubon
- The Georgia Audubon announced Wednesday that it would change its name to Birds Georgia, citing "troublesome revelations" about artist John James Audubon
When 'stay at home' orders put their children, women in easy reach of their abuser
- Enid Draluck outlines the challenges facing many during the COVID-19 Pandemic, with increased risk of unsafe environments for women and children
White Atlanta families have 46 times more wealth than Black ones. How do we fix that?
- The Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative has released a new report, Building A Beloved Economy: A Baseline and Framework for Building Black Wealth in Atlanta, that digs into the factors behind this huge racial wealth disparity and offers 18 ways that city leaders can catalyze wealth-building for Black Atlantans.

Race

American Indians

In Trust: A Bloomberg Podcast
- Dozens of Osages were murdered for their share of lucrative mineral rights to this oil-rich land, a period often referred to as the Reign of Terror. But other transfers of wealth played out more subtly, helped along by policies created by the US government.
The Cherokee Nation acknowledges that descendants of people once enslaved by the tribe should also qualify as Cherokee
- The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court ruled the tribal nation should remove the phrase “by blood” from its constitution and other tribal laws. That change would give descendants of Black people once enslaved by the tribe – known as the Cherokee Freedmen – the right to tribal citizenship
Written out of existence? Native Americans in Kentucky push for recognition of culture
- Since the 1700s, Kentucky has been mythologized as the “Dark and Bloody Ground,” a pass-through region where Native American tribes battled and hunted, but never settled. But archeological evidence and current-day census data shows Kentucky has a long, rich history of indigenous people living here.
Native American communities have the highest suicide rates, yet interventions are scarce
- Non-Hispanic Indigenous people in the United States die by suicide at higher rates than any other racial or ethnic group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The suicide rate among Montana’s Native American youth is more than five times the statewide rate for the same age group
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Once a Roadside Attraction, a Native Burial Site Nears Repatriation
- Centuries-old grave mounds in Illinois became a flashpoint in the debate over displaying Native American remains. Now, tribes are close to seeing them reburied.
A new national park to reclaim Indigenous land
- In a part of the United States with more than 17,000 years of human history, cultural preservation advocate Tracie Revis is working to turn the Ocmulgee Mounds into Georgia's first national park and preserve.

New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education
- New data shows, for the first time at this level of detail, how much students’ standardized test scores rise with their parents’ incomes — and how disparities start years before students sit for tests.
Montefiore’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine Announces Free Tuition in Perpetuity for All Medical School Students
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine has received a transformational gift from Ruth L. Gottesman, Ed.D., Chair of the Einstein Board of Trustees and Montefiore Health System board member. This historic gift – the largest made to any medical school in the country – will ensure that no student at Einstein will have to pay tuition again.

Education

Wealth

Dot's Home - 2D Game
- DOT’S HOME is a single-player game where DOT (Dorothea Hawkins) travels throughtime to key moments in her family’s history to see how individual decisions— however seemingly inconsequential, let alone right or wrong — have long-lasting collective impact
How inheritance data secretly explains U.S. inequality
- White folks are about three times more likely to inherit than their Black, Hispanic or Asian friends. The gap closes slightly when you account for the fact that the typical White American is older than their peers, but it remains vast enough to help explain why the typical White family has more than six times the net worth of the typical Black American family.
What Does Wealth Mean to Me?; Aisha Nyandoro
- Aisha Nyandoro discusses what wealth means to different people, and the ways ones values can define wealth
How Tech Can Help Create The World We Want - Ruha Benjamin
- The values, assumptions, interests and needs that shape our digital and physical worlds are nowhere to be seen. To move forward, we have to pull back the screen. Rather than agonizing about a coming dystopia or longing for a future utopia, we have to reckon with ustopia
A Call to Modernize American Philanthropy
- The giving practices of rich magnates and foundations still suggest a colonial mind-set, the author of a new book argues, as he offers ideas for change.

Gender

The Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender … Are They?
- Recent Ivy League dramas have made women leaders in academia wonder how far they’ve really come.
Here’s what women really think about gender equality in the workplace
- Gender inequalities in the workplace have been the subject of many a discussion over the years, but a new study by Checkr of 2,000 working women takes a closer look at how they really feel about inequality and how their views differ across the four generations currently represented in the workforce.

Visiting Historical Sites

Jarrell Plantation, Juliette, GA
Etowah Indian Mounds, Cartersville, GA
Chief Vann House, Chatsworth, GA
Ocmulgee Mounds, Macon, GA
Sapelo Island, McIntosh County, GA