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108 Death Masks by Nikesha Breeze is part of the new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery Alabama. Equal Justice Initiative Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, says in the United States the story of enslaved people is not told with real honesty. That's part of the reason he and EJI created and opened the 17-acre Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. The new park is […]

Baltimore, Photo by Irina Sitnikova on Unsplash In a significant step towards promoting financial stability and addressing the racial wealth divide, five U.S. cities have been chosen to participate in the CityStart initiative, a program focused on developing strategies to help families and communities become more financially secure. The Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund (CFE Fund), in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies' Greenwood Initiative, has selected Buffalo, NY; Chicago, IL; Indianapolis, […]

In a significant move towards economic justice, the city of Evanston, Illinois has recently transferred $17 million of its reparations fund to Liberty Bank and Trust, a Black-owned financial institution. According to a recent article in Essence, this transfer is being hailed as a "very, very big deal" by Robin Rue Simmons, the chair of Evanston's Reparations Committee. Evanston made history in 2019 by becoming the first city in the […]

A lethal injection gurney is seen at the at Nevada State Prison, a former penitentiary in Carson City, Nev., in 2022. Emily Najera for NPR Studies of the death penalty have long shown racial inequality in its application, but a new report has found the disparity extends inside the death chamber itself. In an analysis of the more than 1,400 lethal injection executions conducted in the U.S. since 1982, researchers […]