Dr. King’s Dreams About Racial and Economic Justice Included Guaranteed Income
The March for Jobs and Freedom was just the beginning of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ideas about economic justice
Stop Putting Black Trauma on Display
The recent media exploitation of the Tyre Nichols killing was dehumanizing. Media should focus their efforts on exposing policy inaction after years of proven brutality against our communities.
A NIGHTMARE OF RACIAL ANIMOSITY OVERTAKING AMERICA
A bad dream is a bad experience. But a truly terrible experience occurs when a bad dream feels like a premonition. Judging by media stories, online commentary and conversations with…
Voices of Everyday Leaders
Why Does America Celebrate Mother’s Day Given Its Treatment of Poor Mothers? Another Mother’s Day has come and gone! School-age children with sharp grins delivered to their mothers their hand-made…
The Assassination of Martin Luther King, and America’s Addiction to Gun Violence
April 4. The date of MLK’s assassination returns – as it always does to haunt us. April 4th, 1968 remains a guilty shadow lingering over American history. King is honored…
How do we work to redeem America’s soul?
This piece originally published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. From the recent, unabashed public expressions of white supremacy to immoral policies of ripping immigrant children away from their parents to…
In Florida, we steer which way we go at historic crossroads
Florida is on the cusp of a historic moment. Democratic voters nominated Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum as the first black candidate for Governor in the history of the state. As…
Continuing Robert F. Kennedy’s legacy, 50 years later
What does a man born into extreme wealth and privilege and a golden political pedigree have in common with a single mom from Montana who is struggling to get by?…
Bobby and the Center for Community Change
I still recall the moment that I truly entered the world. It was not the instant when the bullets were fired. It was a few minutes later when I was…
Continuing the unfinished work of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
As we are memorializing the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this week during the 50th anniversary of his assassination, we are reminded that the Center for Community Change’s…