On August 8, 2010, we began publishing the inaugural issue of JAFSCD. It’s been a wonderful journey over 10 years to this point.

We appreciate all the guidance, support, and encouragement from past and present advisors, reviewers, authors, readers, partners, shareholders, our fiscal sponsor the Center for Transformative Action, and everyone who makes up the JAFSCD community. Some of you have been with us since day 1!

After consultation and feedback from the JAFSCD Shareholder Consortium, we have released the JAFSCD Statement on Anti-Black Racism. This is a starting point and a way to remain accountable to the work that we need to do.

The ongoing systemic and systematic oppressions and anti-Black violence in the United States, Canada, and across the globe have once again been brought into the collective spotlight. These acts perpetuate historical systems of oppression and violence that are entrenched in the very institutions that are purportedly designed to serve and protect people. . . .