In my annual letter, I share how we’re building a frontier ecosystem to turn technological progress into real-world outcomes and economic opportunity for people, organizations, and communities everywhere. https://t.co/Zcrb96sCC3
NCRC welcomes Nicholas Hawkins to our Irvin M. Henderson Fellowship!! He joins us from Texas Southern University and will be working with Hip Hop Caucus this year. Welcome, Nicholas! #JustEconomy https://t.co/HDjwnu3cjz #JustEconomy
MOTTLEY WARNS UN: THERE WILL BE WAR UNTIL RACISM IS ABANDONED
When Emperor Haile Selassie addressed the UN General Assembly on October 4, 1963, he delivered words that would echo through the decades: "Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... everywhere is war."
Sixty-three years later, on September 25, 2026, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley stood before the 81st UNGA and invoked those same words, asking world leaders to recite them together. Her gesture was not mere nostalgia. As the Ghanaian Times observed, "the question of whether international relations are truly governed by equality and fairness remains unresolved" .
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned in May 2026 that the world faces "the highest number of conflicts since the founding of the United Nations," with a "dangerous erosion of respect for international law" and "impunity spreading".
As Prime Minister Mottley stated, "the mindset that established, justified and sustained slavery is the same mindset that sustains the iniquities within the power structures of this very institution".
From the dawn of the African liberation struggle, to Selassie's demand for racial equality in 1963, to Mottley's call in 2026, the demand remains constant: the international order must become "more equitable, representative and responsive to the interests of all peoples".
Watching Republican legislators condemning anti-immigrant sentiment while having voted for every anti-immigrant bill that came to the floor of the Texas House for at least the last decade is the shot of irony I needed today #txlege
What AI data center developers promise: jobs, tax revenue, economic growth. What communities pay: energy strain, water use, environmental harm, no voice in the decision.
Our new report shows the real math.
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The proposed CRA rollback could put $71B-$87B in community development financing at risk annually. Join NCRC's Kevin Hill on Sept. 18 at 2 pm ET to learn what’s at stake and how to fight back before the Oct. 13 comment deadline. https://t.co/KvaALdsboo
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Spent the last few days working on a dynamic map that shows hanging deaths of Black people since 2018. Of all the ones I’ve tracked so far, a vast majority of the circumstances of the hangings are disputed by family.
So much more to go.