The Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s refusal to implement its own courts’ rulings on Creek Freedmen citizenship is a live test of whether legal and moral covenants survive political pressure—and every nonprofit, CDFI, and philanthropic leader has a stake in the outcome.
Southern states are feeling the ripple effects of an earlier Supreme Court ruling that’s rewriting 60 years of voting protections.
Why does the federal Momnibus now only say 'Black' one time? The answer depends on who you ask.
A new report by ABFE, A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities, speaks to how Black leaders in corporate philanthropy continue their work to support Black communities amid a shifting political paradigm.
After being pushed out of her role while on medical leave, one senior nonprofit leader found a determination to name what the sector too often refuses to: that the pipeline isn’t broken, the courage to hire and trust Black women leaders is.
When Cassie Owens Moore couldn’t find herself in books as a child, she became the librarian she never had—building a school library in South Carolina where every student can see themselves on the shelves.
Black-owned bookstores do far more than sell books—they have a long history of educating people and helping to shape minds.
Adriana George lived and witnessed injustices while working as a nanny. In the spirit of our founding principles of freedom and equality, she's now working to expand the rights of domestic workers.
Liberatory change requires that we imagine radically new futures. But in this, we must ask: What kind of power will we need to build such a world, and how should power work differently within it? If our goal is not restoration but reconstruction of our society, then the theories of power that got us here won’t be enough to get us there.
Indigenous leader, activist, and revolutionary Leonard Peltier was illegally convicted and imprisoned for 49 years and two months. On January 20, 2025, shortly before leaving office, President Biden commuted his sentence, allowing many of those who fought for his freedom to rejoice—and hear him speak in person on the continuing fight for liberation.
The NAACP, alongside local communities, is gearing up to fight the long battle against AI data centers through multi-stakeholder lawsuits and resources that can help impacted communities stand up.
The racial wealth divide is not a historical footnote—it is the architecture of the present. But a look at how centuries of extraction built today’s inequities and what structural investment in Black futures requires offers a pathway forward.