Phyllis Muhammad

On October 21, 2015, the Honorable Congressman Gregory Meeks of New York issued a press release bestowing unreserved praise on World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, stunning Black staffers in the World Bank who find these undeserved accolades groundless hyperbole and overboard at best, or an unquali

The Jim Crow laws were the laws of our land beginning in the late 1870s and ending in 1964. They institutionalized racial discrimination with a ‘separate but equal’ legal doctrine in the Southern States. In the relatively more liberal North, segregation was de facto.

This article is about the twin evils that have bedeviled the World Bank’s relationship with Africa as a continent and Africans as human beings.