empowering a new generation of leaders
Before lunch Hollis Watkins from Southern Echo leads us in a song. He’s remixed Harry Belafonte’s “Day-O (Banana Boat Song)” changing “daylight come and me wanna go home” to: Freedom! Give us freedom, freedom come and it won’t be long. Freedom, freedom, freedom come and it won’t be long. Alta Starr from the Ford Foundation [...]
After the morning’s armchair discussion, Southern Partners Fund’s inaugural Social Justice Institute kicks off a full day of workshops. The room fills quickly for the one on structural racism. Maya Wiley founded the Center for Social Inclusion after working as a civil rights lawyer, senior advisor on race and poverty to the Director of U.S. Programs [...]
Love. Justice. Power. Community. These themes are the common thread for a large, diverse gathering of community organizers from all over the South. Young, old, White, Black, Latino, LGBT, poor, wealthy, and everything in between. Although each face looks different, it’s obvious that for this audience, at least, it is much more about what brings [...]
