‘The Undocumented Americans’ Captures the Reality of a Community Living in Fear
You’d be hard pressed to find a meaningful literary platform for undocumented immigrants who work as day laborers, housekeepers, deliverymen, construction workers or students to share their raw and complex…
Inauguration 2021 Calls Us to Keep Organizing
This is a moment of celebration, hope, and history — and this milestone was made possible by the millions of people of color, especially Black & immigrant voters, who helped get them there.
End the militarization of police and use of force against people, just like Barr wrongly did
There is an urgent threat to civil rights in our country, and the head of the United States Department of Justice, William Barr, is immorally at the center. In the…
Voices of Everyday Leaders
Digital Organizing In The Time of COVID In the age of social-distancing, many of our everyday leaders have shifted how they operate. From educators offering instruction from a virtual classroom…
2019: A Year of Power from the Ground Up
In 2019, Community Change and Community Change Action built #PowerFromtheGroundUp in almost every state with more than 100 grassroots groups, so we all have a voice to be agents of…
Voices of justice rallying together at SCOTUS, echoing #HomeIsHere
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the termination of DACA to decide to uphold the program, or jeopardize the future of millions of immigrant families. In this…
Bold ideas rooted in the lives, experiences of real people
Now you can check out some of the discussions from the event and hear for yourself how power and agency are at the root of economic justice for our communities.
Ideas of MLK, RFK still needed today
This piece originally published in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. When President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the War on Poverty in 1964, his audacious goal was to end poverty in the…
‘Unlocking Opportunities’ Policy Brief
By: Dorian T. Warren, Chirag Mehta, Steve Savner Imagine a 21st-century jobs program that puts families first, makes extensive investments in America’s most impoverished places and creates millions of good…
Reinvesting In Poor Communities Must Be A Priority
Written by Anthony Newby, executive director for Neighborhoods Organizing for Change in Minneapolis and Dorian Warren, Center for Community Change board chairman. Originally posted on the Al Jazeera America. The…