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Building Strong, Healthy, and Resilient Communities in Ferguson and Beyond
The recent shooting death of African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, is a painful reminder of the deeply entrenched divisions and tensions that plague too many American communities fractured by decades of racial discrimination, poverty, and disinvestment. As in [...]
Grant Makers Should Seize the Moment to Seek Racial Justice Solutions
As grant makers who have supported minority populations impacted by civil-rights violations after September 11, we have seen time and again that the solutions to these deeply entrenched problems [like police accountability] require connecting the dots—focusing on community-led strategies and funding both within and across communities.
Police Accountability and the Criminalization of Communities of Color: Organizing in Ferguson and Beyond
Police Accountability and the Criminalization of Communities of Color: Organizing in Ferguson and Beyond - a conference call for funders on September 15, 2014
Ferguson City Council Announces New Programs
Ferguson City Council announced today that they are implementing several changes and new programs in response to community concerns. These new laws and policies are designed to reduce court fine revenue used for general city operations, reform court procedures, and establish a Citizen Review Board to provide citizen oversight and guidance for the police department.
Thoughts on Ferguson
But it means nothing if your interactions with people of color, and your politics around people of color, don’t change.
The Violence Happening in Ferguson Is More Than Physical
A big mistake that people tend to make when thinking and talking about violence is assuming that the term only refers to physically painful encounters.
We Call it the “American Dream”
What immigrants don’t always fully appreciate is that many native-born Americans have had to fight just as hard and struggle just as much for safety, freedom, opportunity, and family. Throughout American history, no group has had a greater struggle than African-Americans.
The Black Scholar: Ferguson, the Black Radical Tradition and the Path Forward
A new movement is being born in the darkness of Ferguson, Missouri. The new reality, the new nadir has established the structural conditions for the birth of a new movement. We need to supply the consciousness.