Not since the fall of apartheid have we seen such dark days in South Africa. In this moment of social unrest, we’re holding space for the profound grief and loss so rife in this moment. We’re facilitating support to communities impacted by the duelling crises of COVID and social unrest. But most importantly, we are challenging ourselves to engage in radical and active hope.
Read MoreLong before the COVID-19 pandemic created serious financial strain for millions across the globe, housing advocates across the United States had been sounding the alarm about a looming eviction crisis. And while the pandemic has significantly exacerbated this emergency, the root causes are much older and deeper according to attorney, housing advocate and Senior Atlantic Fellow Rasheedah Phillips ’18. Through her work with the Community Legal Services of Philadelphia and with support from AFRE, she is building power with tenant organizers to take on the effects of evictions.
Read MoreYouth Day and Juneteenth remind us that liberation is hard won, and the quest is marked by paradox.
Read MoreToday, May 25 2021, marks one year since George Floyd was murdered by former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin—an act that acutely reflects the callousness with which U.S. police regard Black lives. Despite the historic nature of the Chauvin verdict, systemic issues with policing remain unresolved.
Read MoreCreated by Cedric Brown, a 2019 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, THE SHAPE OF BLACKNESS (SHAPE) is one of the first-ever virtual exhibitions to engage Black artists from different continents in a transnational conversation on the Black experience—past, present, and future.
Read MoreA new report from Senior Fellow Rich Wallace examines the structural factors that impact the people who work in Chicago’s informal economy.
Read MoreAs we move through this Black History Month, we urge you to join our Fellows, partners, and other advocates in advancing an eight-point policy agenda that addresses some of the structural inequalities that prevent Black people and people of colour more broadly from thriving.
Read MoreAt a time when coalition building is more crucial than ever before, our Associate Director Patronella Nqaba sat down with 2019 Atlantic Fellow Wilneida Negron, Ph.D., to talk about how Black and Latinx communities can work together to build a more equitable future.
Read MoreFollowing the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., AFRE issued a powerful statement calling for a swift response to this unprecedented act of terror and for action to protect and strengthen the U.S.'s multi-racial democracy.
Read MoreWith support from AFRE, Dorah will establish an agroecological smallholder farming node in the West Rand of Gauteng, South Africa.
Read MoreToday, voting concludes in the most consequential United States presidential election in recent history. As an anxious nation awaits the outcome, we are sharing this letter from our South African colleague, Sylvia Graham, reflecting on why the vote matters not only to the future of the US, but also to democratic institutions across the globe.
Read MoreSebabatso Manoeli, our Senior Director of Strategic Programmes, is the host of the Race Beyond Borders podcast series. The Nelson Mandela Foundation recently sat down with her to find out more about the goals and aims of this new dynamic series.
Read MoreWatch this webinar moderated by Atlantic Fellow Wilneida Negron, Strategic Advisor at the Ford Foundation, and features Ebele Okobi, Facebook’s Public Policy Director for Africa, the Middle East & Turkey, and Camaren Peter, an Associate Professor with the Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.
Read MoreThe current global discourse on Black Lives Matter does not yet adequately include anti-Black racism beyond how the West experiences it. Read this compelling piece by our Sr. Director of Strategic Programmes Sebabatso Manoeli on why that needs to change.
Read MoreSince 1790, the United States has used the Census to determine who has voice and political power in its representative democracy by counts of everyone living in the country regardless of citizenship or legal status. With the deadline for completing the Census count in flux, our Senior Director of Narrative Strategy, Daryl Hannah, sat down with Atlantic Fellow Elana Needle to talk about why the Census matters.
Read MoreThe deaths of Zindziswa Mandela and John Lewis mark the end of an era in the long struggle for Black liberation. And as we bid them farewell, we must ask, how can we accelerate the change needed to complete their work? Read this piece from our Associate Director Patronella Nqaba on how we can institute a new form of politics.
Read MoreListen to this Atlantic Fellows Conversations podcast in which Betsy Hodges, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, and Maureen Sigauke, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, discuss the future for racism post COVID-19. Their conversation examines the impact in the US and Zimbabwe of lockdown and the death of George Floyd.
Read MoreThe Atlantic Institute, in partnership with Flatbush Pictures, has produced eight short films on the work of the Fellows across the seven Atlantic Fellows programmes. The series features two of our Fellows telling their own stories in communities around South Los Angeles, California and the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Read MoreWe’re excited to announce the 2020 class of Atlantic Fellows - 20 dynamic leaders from all walks of life who have a track record of success in using their art, scholarship, activism and other talents to advocate for their communities and to help build a world where the liberation of Black people leads to the liberation of all people.
Read More2019 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity and former mayor of Minneapolis Betsy Hodges calls for deeper understandings of what it means to stand in solidarity in her recent New York Times op-ed.
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