Community Activism Insights

Hey Family! We have a BIG announcement! WE”RE GOING GLOBAL, AGAIN Y’ALL! We’re excited about this decision. We’ve been looking forward to the White Privilege Conference returning to an international venue. #NowIsTheTime

When Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965, it attacked the machinery of disenfranchisement directly. The law prohibited literacy tests and poll taxes, while authorizing the federal government to intervene where Black voters had long been blocked from registering to vote and casting ballots.

I’ve been sitting on how to write this article for days. I’m watching what’s happening in Minneapolis with horror, as most of us, wanting to do my best to channel my power, and my rage, and not become hopeless and stunned. For the system feeds off shock and hopelessness. As long as we live from fear, state violence wins; racism wins. As a scholar of history and social patterns …