Spotlight
- “Now, Who are Your People?”As we celebrate Black History Month, we must be reminded of the great civil rights organizer, intellectual and teacher Ella Baker’s question, “Now, who are your people?” Ella Baker was keenly aware that we are a product of many people who sacrificed for us—both in political and personal terms.
Current Issues
- Ray Almeida: Passionate Advocate for Africa
January 29 the Africanist community lost one our most passionate and effective advocates, Ray Almeida, who passed away from cardiac arrest in a Boston hospital. Ray, originally from New Bedford, Massachusetts, which is home to the largest community of immigrants from Cape Verde, was active for more than 40 years in a variety of social movements, campaigns, and public policy legislation. In 2005 he was honored with the presentation of the “Ordem Amilcar Cabral” award by His Excellency Pedro Verona Pires, President and Head of State of the Republic of Cape Verde. The TransAfrica Forum Board and staff are deeply saddened by Ray’s passing and we send our deepest condolences to the Almeida family. To read Ray’s obituary and to leave comments, please click here.
- Organizations Unite to Tell Treasury Secretary Geithner: Cancel Haiti’s Debt Now and No More Debt for Disaster
Today 80 US religious denominations, human rights groups, and development agencies including the Jubilee USA Network, the AFL-CIO, the ONE Campaign and TransAfrica Forum, sent a letter to US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, urging him to negotiate immediate debt cancellation for Haiti by the international financial institutions.
- TransAfrica Forum BlogPlease share information on TransAfrica Forum's blog about situation in Haiti! Bookmark transafricaforum.blogspot.com and tell your friends. Also click here for more information on the earthquake and its aftermath in Haiti.
- 2010 Calendar: For the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Order your 2010 TransAfrica Forum Calendar TODAY!The year 2010 marks the 35th anniversary of the first World Conference on Women, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1975. This conference and others that followed in 1980, 1985 and 1995 complemented what the United Nations had initiated in 1946 with the establishment of the Commission on the Status of Women, dedicated to gender equality and the advancement of women. The culmination of the Commission’s work to promote women’s rights and to monitor the situation of women was the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by the UN General Assembly on December 19, 1979. This convention went into force as an international treaty in 1981.