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No city alone has the ability or the capacity to right all the wrongs of the past. But Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza suggests that cities are leading the way across the country in tackling racial injustice and anti-Blackness, including through his city's truth-telling, reconciliation and municipal reparations process.

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Reparations are not new in this country. Forty years after stripping Japanese Americans of their homes, businesses, property and dignity, the U.S. government paid survivors $20,000 and issued a formal apology. Author Daniel James Brown explores what we can learn from the Japanese-American experience.

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OPINION COMMENTARY:

The dominant media system defines the truths of our society and has created and sustained an anti-Black narrative since 1619. While government reparations efforts unfold, business and philanthropy can help repair and transform our media system. Alicia Bell, Damaso Reyes, Joseph Torres and Collette Watson discuss the steps needed to bring about change.

As we work to ensure a more just economic recovery, business leaders, policy leaders and philanthropists all have an important role to play. Paul Salem discusses how tested programs like Year Up plays a critical role in creating an integrated talent ecosystem for young people of color to succeed.

A conversation with historian, teacher and activist, Professor Timothy Patrick McCarthy, on the importance of embracing an honest reckoning with history, battling the culture wars in schools, and liberation dreaming in order to realize our best aspirations and intentions for public education.

THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION SERIES:

A conversation with Kimberly Teehee, Director of Government Relations for Cherokee Nation and Senior Vice President of Government Relations for Cherokee Nation Businesses.

THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION SERIES:

The Biden administration has moved rapidly in its first 100 days to renew our government’s efforts to stem climate change. The Department of Energy and Department of Interior will both play outsized roles among the federal agencies in helping to implement Biden’s climate agenda.

THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION SERIES:

A conversation with Shavon Arline-Bradley, Founding Principal of R.E.A.C.H. Beyond Solutions LLC, a public health, policy/advocacy, faith and executive leadership firm and Co-Founder of The Health Equity Cypher Group, a collaborative of nationally recognized health equity experts designed to expand the work of health, equity and diversity & inclusion in all sectors.

A conversation with Karen Emmons, a Professor of Social and Behavioral Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Bisola Ojikutu, an infectious disease specialist and health equity researcher who has dedicated her career to overcoming racial and ethnic disparities in HIV and now COVID-19 — discussing how community investment can help build trust in vaccines.

ONE YEAR AFTER GEORGE FLOYD'S MURDER SERIES:

A conversation with Paul Butler, an Albert Brick Professor of Law at Georgetown University and legal analyst on MSNBC, discussing where we are as a country regarding policing and racial equality.

ONE YEAR AFTER GEORGE FLOYD'S MURDER SERIES:

A conversation with Quincy Miller, Vice Chair and President of Eastern Bank, on supporting the communities where he lives and works with a focus on equity and youth.

DISABILITY AWARENESS SERIES:

What do you picture when you think about disability? You probably envision a wheelchair user, the literal symbol of disability plastered on parking spots and bathroom doors. Kathleen Bogart discusses that disability is much broader than most people think.

DISABILITY AWARENESS SERIES:

While the ADA can be harnessed to carve out physical or digital access where it doesn’t exist, they cannot be used to change behavior from something that upends ordinary social access and norms of community. Peter Slatin discusses that without social accessibility the ADA will remain a half-measure.

DISABILITY AWARENESS SERIES:

As one of the world’s leading universities, Professor Michael Ashley Stein, co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, discusses how Harvard has the opportunity as well as the responsibility, to lead in disability-inclusion.

It is time that our federal government earnestly seeks to devise a long-term strategy to rid this nation of racial discrimination. Peter Williams discusses how we must develop a cradle-to-grave strategy for establishing a racially tolerant and antiracist society through education and legislative and regulatory change.

COVID-19 RECOVERY SERIES:

As with all complex economic and social inequality in America, the path to achieve wage equity has engaged thousands of activists, scholars and public servants. Yet few employers, some only after settling racial and gender discrimination lawsuits, have publicly supported wage equity efforts. Evelyn Murphy discusses the need for transparency and accountability to achieve gender equity.

As with any victim of discrimination, people with disabilities and people who are aging often feel robbed of a fair chance to live productive lives or to be their full true selves. Sally Bagshaw discusses by addressing ‘ableism’ and ‘ageism’ and including the formerly excluded, our communities will be better for all of us now and in the future.

A conversation with Imari Paris Jeffries, Executive Director of King Boston, discussing the new memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. being built on the Boston Common and the creation of a Center for Economic Justice.

CAPITOL INSURRECTION SERIES:

January 6, 2021 will go down as one of the most disturbing dates in this nation's history. The attack on and destruction of our nation's U.S. Capitol were despicable acts by homegrown terrorists. They also provided a glimpse into the historical contradictions that have been part of this nation's treatment of race.

POST-ELECTION SERIES:

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick discusses the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, highlighting their potential to heal the nation, address hyper-partisanship and structural racism, and inspire a new vision of inclusivity and opportunity. He also emphasizes the importance of grassroots engagement and the need to combat voter suppression.