Come to Highlander Sept 21-22 for the 2013 Homecoming-From the Civil Rights Movement to the Rebuilding of our Communities and the Next American Revolution
Plan to be on the Hill for Highlander’s annual gathering, this September 21 and 22! We’re honored that Grace Lee Boggs, longtime author and activist who just turned 98, will be joining us as the guest of honor to explore this year’s theme: Resistance and Alternatives to the Economic Clock of the World. The weekend […]
Women Coming Together for Worker Justice
Highlander has worked recently with a number of different groups organizing for worker justice. In April, we led a leadership workshop for the Tennessee Education Association to help teachers from Chattanooga and rural counties in Middle Tennessee share information about how to approach the loss of their collective bargaining rights, which the state stripped from […]
Workshop Work Week, W-7.5, Gets Even More Wonderful
Highlander’s fifth annual Witty & Wonderful, Wild & Wacky Workshop Work Week was a huge success, thanks to the fantastic group of organizers, activists, scholars, and students who came from Utah to western Mass and everywhere in between to engage with Highlander and its work. In the mornings, Highlander’s staff led workshops on our methodologies […]
Strength through Song at the Zilphia Horton Cultural Organizing Institute
The 2nd Zilphia Horton Cultural Organizing Institute brought cultural workers and groups from Nashville, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Philadelphia to Highlander this June to explore how to incorporate culture, song, and art into organizing campaigns in their community. The Institute was framed with a focus on intersectionality and organizing across differences and included an […]
Happy 100th Birthday to Rosa Parks
Monday, February 4th would have been Rosa Parks’ 100th birthday. The story of Mrs. Parks’ refusal to move to the back of the bus is well known, but thanks to a new book by Brooklyn College professor Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, much of the coverage of her centennial has focused […]
Fay Bellamy Powell Remembered
Civil Rights and the entire social justice movement lost a great leader last month with the passing of Fay Bellamy Powell. Born in Pennsylvania, Fay served in the United States Air Force before moving to Selma, Alabama in 1965 to run the SNCC office there, where, she wrote in Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal […]
A Holiday Message from the Director
As this calendar year comes to a close and we reflect on its struggles and victories, here at Highlander we are struck, more than anything, by reflection, gratitude and excitement. We send thoughts to our friends in New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, and all along the east coast who are struggling still to recover […]
We Shall Overcome Fund Deadline Approaching
The next funding cycle deadline for applications to the We Shall Overcome Fund is January 15, 2013. Created to nurture grassroots efforts within African American communities to use art and activism for justice, the We Shall Overcome Fund supports organizing in the South that is at the nexus of culture and social change. Started in […]
Honoring the Past, Looking to the Future: The Greensboro Justice Fund Fellowship at the Highlander Center
Highlander is thrilled to announce the second class of the Greensboro Justice Fund Fellows at the Highlander Center. The Greensboro Justice Fund was created with an award from a civil case, paid by the city of Greensboro, that found members of the Ku Klux Klan complicit in the murders of community organizers César Cauce, Mike […]
Meeting/Retreat Space Available
Highlander is currently taking reservations for 2013 for our Horton House and Workshop Center. The Horton House sleeps up to eight, and the Workshop Center can accommodate 35 people. So if you are planning a strategy meeting, retreat or just need somewhere peaceful with a beautiful view to write, rest or unwind, please call the […]