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FEATURING JESSICA AIWUYOR - Hundreds of movement leaders, activists, organizers, funders, and journalists gathered in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2023 at Alight, Align, Arise, an invitation-only conference on reparations organized by the Decolonizing Wealth Project. As the conference’s media partner, YES! Media spoke with more than a dozen prominent organizers, activists, and leaders, among them, Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor, a multicultural communications specialist and the founder of the National Black Cultural Information Trust.

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FEATURING VENNEIKIA WILLIAMS AND TREVOR SMITH - Hundreds of movement leaders, activists, organizers, funders, and journalists gathered in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2023 at Alight, Align, Arise, an invitation-only conference on reparations organized by the Decolonizing Wealth Project. As the conference’s media partner, YES! Media spoke with more than a dozen prominent organizers, activists, and leaders, among them were Venneikia Williams, Campaign Manager at Media 2070, and Trevor Smith, Director of Narrative Change at Liberation Ventures, where he is building the ‘Reparations Narrative Lab’ (RNL).

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FEATURING PIPER FRENCH - Hollywood has come to a standstill this summer as actors join their writer colleagues on the picket line. The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced that it would be on strike starting July 14, 2023, over negotiations breaking down with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents most of the major studios in the film and television industry. That same body failed to negotiate in good faith with the Writers Guild of America (WGA), which has been on strike since May 2, 2023.

Together, writers and actors represent the majority of creative talent in the most influential film industry in the world. Among the issues at stake are streaming residuals (or royalties) and the use of Artificial Intelligence.

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FEATURING MAURICE MITCHELL - Hundreds of movement leaders, activists, organizers, funders, and journalists gathered in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2023 at Alight, Align, Arise, an invitation-only conference on reparations organized by the Decolonizing Wealth Project. As the conference’s media partner, YES! Media spoke with more than a dozen prominent organizers, activists, and leaders, among them Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party.

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FEATURING RICHARD WALLACE - Hundreds of movement leaders, activists, organizers, funders, and journalists gathered in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2023 at Alight, Align, Arise, an invitation-only conference on reparations organized by the Decolonizing Wealth Project. As the conference’s media partner, YES! Media spoke with more than a dozen prominent organizers, activists, and leaders, among them Richard Wallace, Founder and Executive Director of Equity and Transformation (EAT) Chicago.

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FEATURING KENNISS HENRY - Hundreds of movement leaders, activists, organizers, funders, and journalists gathered in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2023 at Alight, Align, Arise, an invitation-only conference on reparations organized by the Decolonizing Wealth Project. As the conference’s media partner, YES! Media spoke with more than a dozen prominent organizers, activists, and leaders, among them Kenniss Henry, considered a revered elder in the movement for reparations.

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FEATURING NKECHI TAIFA - Hundreds of movement leaders, activists, organizers, funders, and journalists gathered in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2023 at Alight, Align, Arise, an invitation-only conference on reparations organized by the Decolonizing Wealth Project. As the conference’s media partner, YES! Media spoke with more than a dozen prominent organizers, activists, and leaders, among them Nkechi Taifa, a longtime leader in the movement for reparations.  

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FEATURING DR. OMÉKONGO DIBINGA - The United States Supreme Court last week ruled in a case on race-based affirmative action policies used by Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The 6-3 ruling had all the court’s conservative justices voting to end efforts by higher education institutions to increase racial diversity on campuses. The case was brought by a conservative organization claiming that Asian Americans are harmed by preferences for people of other nonwhite races and used Asian students as a wedge against Black, Latino, Indigenous and other communities of color. More importantly, it left preferences for wealthy white students intact in the form of legacy admissions and other wealth-based modes of entry.

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FEATURING DREISEN HEATH - Hundreds of movement leaders, activists, organizers, funders, and journalists gathered in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2023 at Alight, Align, Arise, an invitation-only conference on reparations organized by the Decolonizing Wealth Project. As the conference’s media partner, YES! Media spoke with more than a dozen prominent organizers, activists, and leaders, among them Driesen Heath, co-founder of the Why We Can’t Wait coalition.

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FEATURING REP. JAMAAL BOWMAN - Hundreds of movement leaders, activists, organizers, funders, and journalists gathered in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2023 at Alight, Align, Arise, an invitation-only conference on reparations organized by the Decolonizing Wealth Project. As the conference’s media partner, YES! Media spoke with more than a dozen prominent organizers, activists, and leaders, among them United States House Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York.

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