To close out the year, the NPQ team highlights some favorites from 2023—including many articles from this year’s magazine issue, The Space Beyond, which picked up on our conversation last year on “Going Pro Black” and asked, “Where are we now along the path of transformation?” We also highlight articles that elevate cutting-edge work on decolonization, culture change, the path to diversity, equity, and inclusion, hip-hop philanthropy, and the state of Black women’s leadership. 

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Defining Pro-Black

1. Defining Pro-Black

How Hawaiʻi Is Ending Youth Incarceration After More Than a Century of Colonization

2. How Hawaiʻi Is Ending Youth Incarceration After More Than a Century of Colonization

Sankofa Philanthropy: Hip Hop’s Sixth Element

3. Sankofa Philanthropy: Hip Hop’s Sixth Element

The Business Case for DEI Reinforces Anti-Black Sentiment

4. The Business Case for DEI Reinforces Anti-Black Sentiment

Culture Change: What One Historically White-Led Organization Is Learning

5. Culture Change: What One Historically White-Led Organization Is Learning

Reparations, Not Charity

6. Reparations, Not Charity

The Challenge to Power

7. The Challenge to Power

Toward a New Philanthropy: Advancing the Genius of Black-Led Change

8. Toward a New Philanthropy: Advancing the Genius of Black-Led Change

Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

9. Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

The Space Beyond: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez, Darren Isom, and F. Javier Torres-Campos

10. The Space Beyond: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez, Darren Isom, and F. Javier Torres-Campos

How Are American Monuments Telling Our Stories?

11. How Are American Monuments Telling Our Stories?

The State of Black Women Leadership Is In Danger

12. The State of Black Women Leadership Is In Danger