In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

The move comes after Jamaica’s culture minister Olivia Grange travelled to the UK earlier this month to lodge the historic petition King Charles has referred a landmark slavery reparations petition from Jamaica to a high-level UK appeals court for legal advice, Jamaica’s culture minister announced in parliament on Tuesday. Referring to the move as a “really big deal”, Olivia Grange told Jamaica’s MPs the monarch had confirmed that their legal questions have been passed on to the London-based privy council – the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some Commonwealth countries. Continue reading...

Ensuring fair compensation for those affected by legacies of enslavement and measures to address debt burdens, part of 18-point strategic roadmap

Before there was a Commission, there were generations who died too young – not because of bad genes, but because of stolen land, unpaid labour, and a minority world that extracted everything it could ...

Picket lines went up April 21 at Harvard’s main campus in Cambridge and at Harvard Medical School, as graduate students indefinitely halted teaching, grading and research.

PDF | On Mar 23, 2026, A Kirsten Mullen and others published A plan for black American reparations Analysis | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

The frequent criticism of a programme of reparations for Black Americans is that, however justified, no feasible blueprint exists for its implementation. We provide a detailed outline of a viable plan...

'Intimate and epic, Chasing Freedom will teach you more about the legacies of colonialism than a hundred op-eds or a dozen textbooks' SATHNAM SANGHERA, author of Empireland In my home country, they c...

The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms

We believe in science and its achievements, but also in the need to examine how it is actually made, including its limits and its entanglements with politics, money, and power.

Climate change drives displacement and migration across the Americas, particularly exposing Latin American and Caribbean children to compounded health risks. We explore these health impacts, identify ...

Join Eugene Richardson, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital for a discussion on...

As they flew above Yu Suzuki’s innovative, psychedelic 3D landscapes combating space dragons and alien rock monsters, the moving arcade cabinet would physically involve players in the action

The International Court of Justice ruled that nations have an obligation to act on climate change under international laws protecting the environment and human rights.

Can we afford the consumption patterns of the super-rich? Or does human and planetary wellbeing require us to drastically reduce inequality?

Landmark opinion says those that fail to prevent climate harm could be liable for compensation and restitution

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation head Dr. Richard E. Besser and board member Ryan P. Haygood call for the fulfillment of America’s promise.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Addis Ababa, 12 February 2025 (ECA) - At the 46th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union, held under the theme of "Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Re...

The McGill School of Population and Global Health is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity. The nomination deadline is Sunday, June 8th, 2025. Paul Farmer, ...

This perspective highlights the importance of relationality as a methodological framework for understanding the linkages between climate change, colonialis

In a moment of political upheaval, it is up to the left to reject the false choices on offer and seize upon widespread discontent to redefine the terms of debate.

Trump pulls out of Cop28 loss and damage deal that recognises harms done by richer, polluting economies to vulnerable nations

Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s materi...

The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) announced its third annual Global Health Symposium will take place at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, on April 10th -11th, 2025. Centered on the theme o...

Countries meeting at Caricom summit not seeking ‘handout’ but ‘appropriate apology’ and compensation Caribbean leaders have defended the region’s pursuit of slavery reparations, describing the compensation for centuries of enslavement and oppression as a…

The collapse of U.S.A.I.D. at the hands of President Trump and Elon Musk is already leaving gaping holes in vital health care and other services that millions of Africans rely on for their survival.