Introducing Dorian Warren as Next CCC President
“Who am I? I am just a kid from the south side of Chicago… A weird, long-suffering Cubs fan who grew up walking picket lines with my mother who was a public school teacher.”
Happy Birthday, CCC!
The Center for Community Change turns 50 this year! The staff and extended family of CCC have special birthday messages for the organization that is facing a major milestone in…
CCC celebrates 50 years: Change is coming for the next 50 years
At the center of our stories is change. Some change, we decide for ourselves …
Why I Give to CCC
After reading a New York Times op-ed by Arthur C. Brooks in which he discusses why he enjoys fund-raising, I began to think about why I give money to the…
He Traded in High Rent Prices for Van Life
Van life isn’t always just for the likes. This is also a story about housing justice for all.
A Tribute to the Anti-Poverty Activist and Writer Who Inspired Me To Tell My Own Stories
‘Nickel and Dimed’ author Barbara Ehrenreich, who died this year at age 81, helped humanize the struggles of poverty to the masses — and helped those with lived experience tell their stories.
We need policies that harness the vital roles of community colleges
Our world has an increasing reliance on new, ever-changing technology that requires workers to have near-constant flexibility to upgrade, retrain, and retool their skills. It’s estimated that millions of ‘middle-skill…
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…
This is what #AbolishICE really means
Growing up, most of my friends and neighbors did not know what the acronym ICE stood for. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency which oversaw the detention and deportation of…