Interview with Community Movement Builder’s Organizing Director Jasmine Burnett.
Introduce yourself: I’m Jasmine with Community Movement Builders and I’m the organizing director. How would you define “organizing”? Organizing is the [...]
Organizing/Activism
Looking Back at the Young Lords Occupation of Lincoln Hospital 51 Years Later
On July 14th, 1970, the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York, in response to the grave injustices occurring at the hospital that had been plaguing [...]
Power vs. Equality: Malcolm X Sought Not to Change America But to Change Black People
Black America must continue to think about the ideological paradigm shift Malcolm ushered in during the 1960s that still holds some sway over a significant portion of those [...]
Here Is What President Obama Should Say Directly to the Black Community In His Farewell Address
(Originally published January 7, 2017 in Atlanta Black Star) President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a farewell address to the American people on January 10 from his [...]