ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — A California bill awaiting the governor's signature would direct $5 million collected from penalized oil wells in Inglewood into direct cash aid for 1,000 nearby households with qualifying respiratory or reproductive health impacts. The reparations target harms accumulated across generations—lives cut short by illness, household wealth drained by medical bills and depressed property values, and the anxiety of raising children amid pollution. Supporters are calling it environmental reparations and say it is a model that could be replicated to make industrial companies help repair the damage borne by people living closest to polluting sites.
POLICY & JUSTICE — NAACP CEO Derrick Johnson calls the Protect College Sports Act a corporate power grab that caps Black athletes' open-market earning power, describing it as a mechanism designed to protect institutional power at the direct expense of the athletes generating the revenue. Black athletes have helped build some of the most profitable college athletic programs in America, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue, even as southern state governments are moving to limit, reduce, weaken, or erase Black voting representation by creating new, unconstitutional voting districts.
Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design received a $10 million commitment from the Gilbert Family Foundation. The HBCU is the nation's only design-focused historically Black college.
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Founded in 2013 by Nigerian-American entrepreneur Tope Awotona, Calendly is a meeting scheduling platform used by over 20 million users worldwide. The company is valued at $3 billion and represents one of the most successful Black-founded SaaS companies.
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