“The hazardous material we’re trying to clean up is distrust. All of us do trust based work based in the cultures we come from. And one of the things that is hardest for me…is that this is the first time I’m seeing African-American people trying to do that work based not in African-American cultural values but I nonprofit cultural values.”
“Culturally, where’s the space for gentle correction?…And especially in this political, social climate that we’re in right now where nothing is gentle.”
In 2021, a record number of workers resigned from their jobs. Why? If one looks below the surface, it’s clear organizational culture has significantly contributed to this flight.
Business technical assistance tends to focus on start-ups and growth. Helping small business owners of color cash out must become part of wealth building strategy.
How do we create better access to local news? One powerful strategy involves creating media cooperatives, news that is owned by the people who read and produce it.
Did foundations increase their support of racial justice after the murder of George Floyd? Yes, but not in Asian American, Pacific Islander, or Native communities.
In this Remaking the Economy webinar, leaders in the movement for Black food sovereignty discuss how that movement is being built, rooted in the gifts and talents from within the Black community, and anchored in a community vision.
At a time when we are encouraged to privatize love, bell hooks’s love ethic—love as a social pursuit—is more important than ever.
This essay explores how two impulses—the confrontation of injustice and escape from it—have played out in an emphasis on Black solidarity as a conduit for Black Freedom and in the construction of extensive Black Community and even Black Worlds.
Once, Edgar Cahn was at the center of Great Society liberalism. Later, he took a different, less visible path—one based on building reciprocal networks of mutual aid.
The fight to cancel student debt gains momentum as members of the Debt Collective call on President Biden to end federal student loan debt by executive order.
A Native American financial sovereignty moment is gaining ground, revolutionizing capital access for Native families and small businesses.