Equal Voice – A Campaign for America's Families
On September 6, 15,000 families gathered in Birmingham, Chicago and Los Angeles in a powerful national convening of Equal Voice for America’s Families, a campaign of the Marguerite Casey Foundation in partnership with grantees and others to shift attitudes and policies affecting poor and working-class families. The three cities were linked via satellite, and the […]
Equal Voice – A Campaign for America’s Families
On September 6, 15,000 families gathered in Birmingham, Chicago and Los Angeles in a powerful national convening of Equal Voice for America’s Families, a campaign of the Marguerite Casey Foundation in partnership with grantees and others to shift attitudes and policies affecting poor and working-class families. The three cities were linked via satellite, and the […]
Highlander Social Change Workshop on Popular Education and Organizing
Join us on December 5-7, 2008, for a Social Change Workshop on Popular Education and Organizing. Highlander’s vision includes building a movement for justice that reaches across the South and Appalachia and connects to the world. And it starts with people working together. So we want to explore some key things: What helps people come […]
A Katrina Reader: Readings by & for Anti-Racist Educators and Organizers
Check out A Katrina Reader: Readings by & for Anti-Racist Educators and Organizers, produced by the Challenging White Supremacy Workshop. A Katrina Reader is a free online collection of articles, poems, stories, and links to other resources, compiled by and for anti-racist organizers and educators. It has four main goals: To highlight the inspiring tradition […]
A Katrina Reader: Readings by & for Anti-Racist Educators and Organizers
Check out A Katrina Reader: Readings by & for Anti-Racist Educators and Organizers, produced by the Challenging White Supremacy Workshop. A Katrina Reader is a free online collection of articles, poems, stories, and links to other resources, compiled by and for anti-racist organizers and educators. It has four main goals: To highlight the inspiring tradition […]
Books on the Civil Rights Movement by Charles Cobb and Guy and Candie Carawan
On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail by Charles E. Cobb Jr. Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill. $18.95 SNCC veteran Charley Cobb has written a comprehensive guide to travel in the South if you wish to learn about how people have challenged and changed racial discrimination beginning long before the […]
The Highlander Folk School: A Photographic History
The Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University has recently posted “The Highlander Folk School: A Photographic History” on its website at www.metascholar.org/highlander/SPT–Home.php. The collection contains several hundred photographs from Highlander’s archives, which were scanned at Highlander by a student from Emory as part of the Woodruff Library’s MetaScholar program. The photographs can be accessed […]
We Shall Overcome Fund Deadline – June 1, 2008
The next deadline for applications to the We Shall Overcome Fund is June 1, 2008. The We Shall Overcome Fund supports projects in the South that use arts, culture and community activism to organize for social, economic, and political justice to the benefit of African American communities. The fund is supported by the commercial royalties […]
Resist Newsletter on Youth Organizing
For an excellent introduction to youth organizing, check out Resist’s March-April 2008 newsletter, “Youth Organizing Today.” Articles include “Youth Building Movements for Change,” “Youth Fight Displacement — and Win!,” “Building the Future by Shaping the Present: Why Youth Organizing Is Critical for Positive Social Change,” and “Youth Activism Victories in 2007.” The issue also features […]
Bilingual Resources from Highlander's Bookstore
“Bilingual Resources From Highlander’s Bookstore” featured in The Popular Education News (No. 57; April 2008). The article highlights Across Races and Nations: Building New Communities In The U.S. South / A traves de Razas y Naciones: Construyendo Communidades en el Nuevo Sur de EEUU – a bilingual report on the impact of immigration and the […]