Harvard University released a 134-page report this week that detailed the school’s extensive ties to slavery and pledged $100 million for a fund for scholars to continue to research the topic. The report documents dozens of prominent people associated with Harvard who enslaved people, including four Harvard presidents. Harvard commissioned the study in 2019 as part of a wave of schools reckoning with their pasts and the ongoing legacy of racial discrimination. “Harvard’s ties to slavery begin with the founding of the institution,” says MIT historian Craig Steven Wilder, author of “Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities.” Wilder says that while this history is not new, Harvard worked for decades to erase its complicity in slavery. “We’re really only beginning to reconcile and to really struggle with the deep ties that this institution has to slavery,” he says.


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Activists in Ghana have launched a legal challenge to stop mining in a protected area.
That is after the government signed a deal with a Chinese company to extract bauxite – a mineral used to make aluminium products.
They say the move threatens the already endangered animals and plants.

Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller reports.

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AHSA hosted its 52nd annual conference in July-Aug, 2021 and was a partner for PANAFEST and the 2021 PANAFEST Three (3) day Colloquium 2021 in Ghana. The Pan African Festival (PANAFEST) Foundation, AHSA and University of Cape Coast met virtually and on ground to explore issues affecting the Black Family, Youth, Pan Africanism and African liberation. This session is a keynote intergenerational dialogue with a giant of African thinkers and writers- Chinweizu, author of the noted "The West and the Rest of Us," and "Decolonizing the African Mind." Chinweizu not only explores the role of young generations in shaping Pan Africanism, but how Black organizations need to properly develop future leaders, citing Oromo society as a model

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65 Years of Ghana Independence: Significance for National & African Development

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The Conference which took place in Ghana - Accra, brought together freedom fighters from all over Africa including independent and colonized states, to address the way forward to the objective of Africa's unity.