Want to Fight Modern Authoritarianism? Look to Black History
Winning Black-led movements followed three steps: Resist, coalition-build, and do it with joy.
Category: Community Organizing
These Mutual Aid Organizations in Central Florida Show Us a Model for Community-Building We Could All Use Right Now
The stories and work of Blue Trunk Community, Las Semillas, and the Neighborhood Fridge might inspire you to build something of your own. Mutual aid work teaches us how to have a better world that fulfills our needs and changes the status quo.
Poem Helps Us Recognize Ways Oppression Shows Up
The way to fight back is to keep calling it out.
Advice from Gen Z Organizers on the Art of Love and Empowerment in Organizing
My generation is often overlooked by those in power. I interviewed four organizers who show up to fight every day.
Singing His Way to Freedom: Remembering Civil Rights Leader Hollis Watkins
Watkins left behind a legacy of service, organizing, and civil disobedience for racial and economic justice.
Researchers Launch First of Its Kind Analysis of Parent Organizing
Amid all of the buzz about parents’ rights, this report unveils a landscape of mother of color-led organizing and leadership development that’s happening in every pocket of the country.
Women’s History Month Spotlight: Afua Atta-Mensah on the Black Immigrant Experience
From Ghana to New York, Community Change’s Chief of Programs talks about the international movement for Black liberation.
“It all starts with being fed up and talking to other people.”
We spotlight Akron-based Rev. Raymond Greene Jr. who used his direct sales skills and lessons from being incarcerated at a young age to become an organizer – ultimately heading Freedom BLOC’s fight to build Black political power.
My Journey From Rhyming in the Bronx to Journalism in Service of Progressive Movements
Writing in all its forms helped me with the fear of always being punished for using my voice.
The Jackson Water Crisis Proved Again that Environmental Justice is Racial Justice
Let’s call it what it is: Generations of environmental racism. It’s time for voters to demand lawmakers prioritize a baseline of clean water, proper sanitation and clean air for all families no matter their ZIP code.