In Honor of Community Organizing

A brief history of Community Organizing:

Jane Addams: The first woman to win the Nobel Peace prize and founder of the Hull House in Chicago, a program which provided social services for people in need.

Saul Alinsky: Author of Rules for Radicals, which laid the foundation for grassroots organizing in the 60s.

César Chávez: Civil Rights activist [...]

Blogging for Justice

Right on the heals of the Day of Red comes a Day of Blogging for Justice spearheaded by African American Political Pundit and the Afrospear
TODAY - Thursday, November 1, 2007 Afrospear members and Afrospear supporters are urged to blog to raise public awareness of the two rape cases involving black women. One woman, Megan Williams, [...]

Why I’m Wearing Red Today

Because I stand in solidarity with the strong, brave women who refuse to stay silent about the increasing violence perpetuated against women, particularly women of color.
Because Megan Williams case is, sadly, familiar to too many other women.
Because there is good in the world.
Because the beautiful ones will never go away.
I wear red today [...]

Day of Blogging for Justice - The Jena Six

Today is the Day of Blogging for Justice, organized and executed by Yobachi of Blackperspective.net and the Afrosphere Jena Six Coalition.
I’ve been reading a lot about the Michael Vick case, although I’ve avoided writing about it, mostly because more than enough has been said about the case as it is. Now, as anyone [...]

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