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The Generosity Commission is a self-appointed, nondemocratic, and publicly unaccountable group of philanthropic elites vexed by the decline in charitable giving and volunteerism among average Americans. Organized in 2021 under the auspices of the Giving USA Foundation and funded by America’s wealthiest foundations, charitable investment banks, and for-profit fundraising and charitable-data corporations, the Commission plans to […]
In 1937, as a correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American covering the Spanish Civil War and the rise of fascism in Europe, the poet Langston Hughes made an astute observation. Fascism, Hughes concluded, was essentially Jim Crow with a foreign accent. “We Negroes in America do not have to be told what Fascism is in action,”
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