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While it had good intentions, sustainability was a concept that failed on launch and simply should have never been. Its original premise was to meet the needs of the present without compromising future generations’ ability to meet their needs—all within available resources. But, does that make sense? Imagine a bucket brimming with any finite resource. Over the years, that resource is diminished as a function of development, industrialization, manufacturing, and population growth.

A Vancouver building illustrates how architecture can make an active, positive contribution to the environment.

Booker has criticized the dialogue around reparations, saying it's "reduced to a box to check on a presidential list."

What's the history behind the controversial policy and what have 2020 presidential contenders said?

BBC

In this 2020 primary, the issue of reparations, which for decades existed only on the fringes of mainstream political debate, has emerged as a litmus test for Democrats vying for a shot at unseating President Donald Trump next year.

(CNN)

Even during the Civil War, Union military and political leaders who were directly responsible for stewarding black people from enslavement into their new lives as freed people felt strongly that slavery was an atrocity and a theft that required compensation. Reparations were understood as both a remedy for the rape, torture, death, and destruction of millions of human souls, and a measure that recognized that freedom without material resources would lock black people into second-class status for generations to come. Promises made to freed people in 1865 that they would receive land—as reparations for their enslavement and the leg-up they needed to start their lives anew—were never honored.

#white supremacy

New York Times reporter Nicholas Casey was in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in March 2019 during a six-day power outage. "By the fourth day," he says, "you started to hear shots getting fired in the street."

(National Public Radio)

(National Civil Rights Museum)

Even during the Civil War, Union military and political leaders who were directly responsible for stewarding black people from enslavement into their new lives as freed people felt strongly that slavery was an atrocity and a theft that required compensation. Reparations were understood as both a remedy for the rape, torture, death, and destruction of millions of human souls, and a measure that recognized that freedom without material resources would lock black people into second-class status for generations to come. Promises made to freed people in 1865 that they would receive land—as reparations for their enslavement and the leg-up they needed to start their lives anew—were never honored.

(The New York Review of Books)

#white supremacy

Community foundations tend to play things safe, given the many stakeholders they must please. So how did the Brooklyn Community Foundation get out front on racial equity, becoming an early philanthropic leader on these issues? Here’s the inside story.

(Inside Philanthropy)

Du Bois wanted these infographics, displayed at the Paris Exposition, to change ideas about how people of color were operating in the world at the turn of the century and show how blacks fit into America’s progress.

February marks Black History month. Despite racism and the systematic obstacles placed in front of African-Americans they continue to achieve greatness. However, even today, African-Americans still lack the same opportunities of economic security and mobility as their white counterparts.

"We can nonetheless still learn something about people's experiences and in a way recover a past that was too often ignored and misrepresented."

Many of the historians of the 19th century and early 20th century left African Americans out. Carter G. Woodson set out to change that

(Time Magazine) The official theme of Black History Month 2019, “Black Migrations,” is a fitting one: not only is migration one of today’s most pressing political issues, but it’s also a key part of the annual observance own history.

THE YEAR AHEAD begins and ends with major traveling exhibitions, each presenting nearly a century of works by African American artists. The January debut of Black Refractions: Highlights Fr...

(Culture Type)

What is to come in 2019 for contemporary African American arts

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