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Smithsonian Begins Two-Year Racial Justice Initiative Sarah Bahr, August 25, 2021, The New York Times When Lonnie G. Bunch III, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, announced last year that the organization had received a $25 million gift from Bank of America, he envisioned an initiative that would create safe spaces in communities across the nation where Americans could gather to discuss the country’s racial past. The result, “Our Shared Future: Reckoning With Our Racial Past,” a two-year series of online and in-person events, will kick off Thursday in Los Angeles with a virtual summit meeting that will focus on income and health care inequality and include subjects ranging from early race science to vaccine distribution. The initial event will be livestreamed at oursharedfuture.si.edu, starting at 7 p.m. Eastern. continue It’s time to free Black revolutionaries from US prisons Akin Olla, 25 August 2021, The Guardian While the rise of the Black Lives