Within racial justice spaces, a “Fourth Degree” of Price Discrimination is slowly emerging that is rooted in reparationist policy and takes a practical approach to the racial wealth gap.
Race-conscious Pricing Structures as Reparationist Policy
How to Weave Organizing Traditions Together to Advance Systemic Change
To remake the economy requires systemic vision, relationship building, and scale. It also requires learning from the best of multiple organizing traditions.
Building Power to Remake the Economy: Six Movement Lessons
At an economics conference panel this fall, social movement leaders discussed some key lessons they’ve learned in the face of COVID-19 and the movement against anti-Black racism.
Envisioning Radical Empathy for Community Land Ownership and Prosperity
Community-based models of land ownership show great promise to reduce the nation’s wealth gap. But a culture rooted in radical empathy is also required.
CDFI Leaders Consider How Best to Advance “Finance Justice” Agenda
Amid the economic response to COVID-19, CDFIs expanded to meet the need. At their annual conference, sector leaders considered how to build on those gains.
Liberating Human Resources: Finding a Path to a New HR Paradigm
If nonprofits and movement organizations truly value people, current HR practices do not serve them well. It is time to repurpose HR from top to bottom.
A Decade In, Fossil Fuel Divestment Has Become Mainstream: What Now?
With Harvard and the Ford Foundation exiting from fossil fuel stocks, divestment is clearly now mainstream. How will this affect prospects for climate justice?
“The Puerto Rican Love”: Life on the Island After Maria
In this conversation about Puerto Rico, climate crisis, leadership, and critical knowledge from communities of color, Cyndi Suarez speaks with a beloved environmental leader in Puerto Rico.
Health and Wealth: An Integrated Approach to Climate Justice
To meet the present moment and achieve a more just future for all, we must embrace the interconnectedness of our challenges in ways that energize community-based solutions.
Report Exposes the Fallacies of Black Criminality
Founded on discriminatory practices and policies, discourse surrounding criminal matters—from courtrooms to news reports—is rooted in the unconscious or conscious belief that Black people are more prone to criminal behavior.
Centering Community Development in Fair Housing Principles
To overcome structural racism and a deeply inequitable society, the community development field must embrace fair housing as core to its transformative work.
What’s New in Co-op Media? Growing Pains in the Digital News Co-op World
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. So it is with co-op media, as one media co-op ceases publication in Akron and others launch in Baltimore and West Virginia.