By Justin Laing | February 12, 2025 | Non reformist reforms, Racial Capitalism
A recent article on the front page of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette (PG) headlined that the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) was facing a $7M deficit along with a 12% increase in its costs and a drop in overall revenue of 8% when compared to the pre-pandemic 2018-19 season. Still, the… Read More >
By Justin Laing | April 2, 2020 | Critical Philanthropy, Non reformist reforms
Initially it felt encouraging to see this call from philanthropy serving organizations for foundations to increase spending at this time and for communities of color to be named specifically, but then I thought about it some more and lost my feeling of encouragement (curious to me that the Association of Black Foundation… Read More >
By Justin Laing | November 6, 2019 | Non reformist reforms
I was recently asked for a reading list on whiteness, race, racism (synonyms, all of them) and ended up writing a summary and synthesis of books. Whiteness and capitalism are inseparable in my understanding and so some of these, and the first one, are critiques of capitalism. The list got… Read More >