Ever since Joe Biden became President, there has been an uptick in regime change related activity in black majority countries around the world in the Caribbean and in Africa. Unlike the French, they do not use their military. Instead they are using…
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is one of only nine central banks around the world with private shareholders. The South African Reserve Bank was established in 1921 as a result of unusual financial and monetary conditions stemming from World War I.…
A new study by Christopher Berry, the William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, finds that low-income families face far higher property tax rates than high-income families. The reason is differences in assessment rates between low-income and high-income…
Land ownership is essential for creating wealth in any given community. Most Americans created wealth from land ownership. When white European immigrants came from Europe to settle in the Americas they were promised land. In England they had been landless but…
Zimbabwe's Roger Boka was a visionary and an economic freedom fighter. He broke the economic glass ceiling when he launched the first black owned Merchant Bank in Zimbabwe, United Merchant Bank. Prior to Boka's launch, Zimbabwean banking had been dominated by foreign…
The Center for Social Solutions at the University of Michigan is leading a group of college and university scholars in an effort to examine possible avenues to provide reparations for African Americans and Indigenous people. Reparations refers to compensation, which may include…
On April 18, 2020, Zimbabwe celebrated 40 years of Independence. Zimbabweans have been politically independent for 40 years but economically independent for only 20 years. Many years after independence, economic resources remained in the hands of Europeans. Only in the last 20…
AG Gaston was one of the most important icons of the civil rights era. He was one of the financier of the civil rights struggle that ended discrimination in America. He was the man who wrote the check that financed the civil…
It is not a secret that neocolonialism is real and Western
countries like France and the United Kingdom still view their former colonies
as extensions of themselves. This is why it was not shocking that AU executive
secretary Moussa Faki Mahamat, the former Chadian prime…
When Byron Allen first launched a legal rampage back in 2015, few
would have guessed he would get to the Supreme Court with a case that
could transform the way discrimination lawsuits are handled and
represents a coda on 19th century Reconstruction efforts…