To achieve impact, philanthropy must think deeply about power with candid discussions about how it shows up in our respective organizations. In @npquarterly, @ariaflorant reflects on the need to transform the sector’s relationship with power: https://t.co/UnQyu4JT1O
@ariaflorant from Liberation Ventures "Philanthropy has a role to play in making grants that resource the reparations movement, but making grants is not reparations in itself." @CHANGEPhil's session on Reckoning Initiative: Philanthropy's Role in Reparations for Black People.
How can philanthropy support reparations and racial repair? @ariaflorant (Liberation Ventures), Tonyel Edwards, @IamCoraDaniels, Alexandra Williams & Maurice Asare (@BridgespanGroup) call on #philanthropy to make a systemic shift and move toward #equity. https://t.co/TEXGmDxyw7
I find myself disturbed by how Black people are being repeatedly invoked as point of comparison with Trump’s criminality. He’s representative of his ilk, let him be that.
@LauraTrevelyan we met at the @atlanticfellows event in Oxford - I work on reparations @racialrepair, have ancestors from Grenada and Barbados, and live in Brooklyn. Would love to connect further to share more about our work and how we could get you involved!
It is exceedingly difficult to overstate the stature of legal giant Prof. Charles Ogletree in the minds & hearts of multitudes of lawyers. #Ogletree represented an excellence of practice, pedagogy, & justice. For many, he inspired visions of what we might become. Rest in power.
“Attorneys for the city of Tulsa had argued that the case should be dismissed because the lawsuit didn’t lay out how Judge Wall should remedy the harm.” Make it make sense. This is heartbreaking. https://t.co/pqUlRJj9kl
…to provide the tools we needed then, and still need today, to create the multiracial democracy that the Framers of the Civil War amendments recognized would be this country’s last, best hope for survival.”
“Taken together in reasoning and consequence, this court’s 21st-century Civil Rights decisions are increasingly reminiscent of the 19th-century court’s steady weakening of the potential and promise of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution… https://t.co/NQgtfyToWt