Over the past month there have been several conversations about our country’s collective commitment (or lack thereof) to Black wealth and Black lives.
** June 2021
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** Investing in Black Lives and Black Wealth
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Over the past month there have been several conversations about our country’s collective commitment (or lack thereof) to Black wealth and Black lives. From the 100-year commemoration of the race massacre in Tulsa, OK, to our country's formal recognition of Juneteenth; from reflecting on the year since the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, to a reckoning around corporate commitments to racial equity, many are asking: What has been done? What has changed? What has to happen?
We wanted to explore these questions through a lens of reparative justice to look at the past harms, present efforts, and future demands around restoring Black wealth. In this issue of our revamped newsletter, Cristina Díaz Borda shares her attempts at accessing data around Tulsa, OK ([link removed]) , noting how the difficulty in gathering certain kinds of information can be used to interrupt demands for justice. Caitlin Morelli reveals the database she and her team pulled together tracking corporate commitments to racial equity ([link removed]) made last year, uncovering the fine print and limitations of such efforts, painting a new path forward for corporate accountability to truly drive equity. And Kassandra Mayhew brings us into communities across the country
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* Can We Correct For Past Traumas If the Data Is Missing? ([link removed])
* Don’t be Fooled by Corporate Commitments to Racial Equity ([link removed])
* Building Black Wealth Through Financial, Physical, and Social Spaces ([link removed])
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